Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?
Have a look at Microtik's equipment very cheap i don't think it's cheap :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?
Doy you have a pre-determined budget for this homework? have a look at california amplifiers - calamp.com if I remember correctly. amplifiers are kind of idiot solution. it just make more mess for others. DO NOT use them unless you REALLY have to == the best antennas are not enough. for 50km it's unlikely you will need it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?
LAN-BSDrouter-modem-Antenna~~air~~Antenna-modem-DSL Your BSD router would act as a gateway, eventually using functions like IPDIVERT and DHCPd via RF. It would then serve as an AP, put in simple words. This should be achievable mostly by means of the base OS. Do not use builtin cards for such links unless you like to keep computer outside. long RF cables=LARGE signal loss. There are LOT of external radiobridges that are designed to be placed outside so it's connected to antenna almost directly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?
speaking comparatively, of course :D On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:10:42 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Have a look at Microtik's equipment very cheap i don't think it's cheap :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?
Depending upon what your budget is, Tranzeo has some excellent wireless products that are ideal for point-point links. Encryption is built-in and they can be configured for point-point or point-multipoint (just in case the project expands). One problem that you may run into, if both sides of the link are close to the ground, is the fresnel zone. If one side is higher than the other, this shouldn't be a problem. Two self contained POE radios with built-in antanna should run you about $500 and they can be mounted on standard satellite dish arms. I've also used mikrotik products and have generally been very happy with them. There is a ton of functionality and I actually use two of them for my core routers at my current job. I think for this project they are overkill and there is quite a bit of a learning curve to get them up and running. If you don't plan on deploying anything else, I think that you will find that the tranzeo's are a simpler solution. Craig - Original Message From: Modulok modu...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:43:01 AM Subject: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers? List, I have been tasked with getting a DSL connection across about 10km of no-man's-land to a rural location without internet access. Ideally, all traffic inbetween the two directional antennas would be encrypted. (Nice, but not entirely required.) 3Mb/s would be great! Something like: LAN-BSDrouter-modem-Antenna~~air~~Antenna-modem-DSL I'm looking for general pointers of both hardware and software to achieve this. I'd like to employ FreeBSD as much as is feasible. This is my first WAN network project, so even newbie pointers and general references would be much appreciated. (Hardware suggestions, books to read, etc.) Reliability is of mild concern, simply because I don't want to drive 10km at 3:00am when something breaks. Tips? References? Advice? -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?
NOTE: could you please do break lines properly on your posts? answering your mails is not easy. Depending upon what your budget is, Tranzeo has some excellent wireless products that are ideal for point-point links. Encryption is built-in and they can be configured for point-point or point-multipoint (just in case the project expands). One problem that you may run into, if both sides of the link are close to the ground, is the fresnel zone. which is not dependent from manufacturer, but physics, and more important in lower frequency. Calculations are easily found in the net. and there are few meters to be counted too because earth is not flat. If one side is higher than the other, this shouldn't be a problem. Two self contained POE radios with built-in antanna should run you about $500 and they can be mounted on standard satellite dish arms. it works if done precisely enough :) I've also used mikrotik products and have generally been very happy with them. There is a ton of functionality and I actually use two of them for my core routers at my current job. I think for this project they are overkill and there is quite a bit of a learning curve to get them up and running. If you don't plan on deploying anything else, I think that you will find that the tranzeo's are a simpler solution. -- generally - simple radio bridges. you put one to DSL router, and other to computer/switch. that's all. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7.1: iwi problem with intel 2200 pro wireless card
THE LAST LINE PUT IT IN FIRST LINE legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 THAT LINE #WiFI Config legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 if_iwi_load=YES wlan_load=YES firmware_load=YES iwi_bss_load=YES iwi_ibss_load=YES iwi_monitor_load=YES Curley-2 wrote: Dear FreeBSD-questions Group, I recently installed freeBSD 7.1 on an IBM Thinkpad T42 (types 2378). The system will not connect to the internet wirelessly using the Intel 2200 pro wireless card. The problem is described in the following and some relevent files (/var/log/messages, /var/run/dmesg.boot, /boot/loader.conf) are pasted below my signature. Thanks in advance for any help configuring this feature. When I attempt to connect to the internet using the 'ifconfig iwi0 up scan' command the terminal gives no response and in /var/log/messages, 'iwi0: could not load main firmware iwi_bss' is given as an error. Ocassionally, after a system reboot the wireless card will connect to a local network. However attempting to change wireless networks causes the wireless to crash. Therefore, I do not think the problem is hardware based. Additionally, I have checked the hardware using Windows XP device manager (Windows XP is installed on a separated hard drive). The wireless works fine on Windows XP. I have looked through message boards without luck finding a solution for my system. Please let me know if this question ought to be sent elsewhere, I am a new user. Thanks again for taking the time to read this. Best Regards, John from /var/log/messages: (system response to the command ifconfig iwi0 up scan) Jan 30 01:39:02 JohnsThinkpad kernel: iwi0: timeout processing command blocks for iwi_bss firmware Jan 30 01:39:02 JohnsThinkpad kernel: iwi0: could not load main firmware iwi_bss --- from /var/run/dmesg.boot: Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC module_register: module uhub/umass already exists! Module uhub/umass failed to register: 17 Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz (1498.74-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x695 Stepping = 5 Features=0xa7e9f9bfFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,PBE Features2=0x180EST,TM2 real memory = 2146828288 (2047 MB) avail memory = 2091171840 (1994 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) ACPI Warning (tbfadt-0505): Optional field Gpe1Block has zero address or length:0102C/0 [20070320] acpi0: IBM TP-1R on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi_ec0: Embedded Controller: GPE 0x1c, ECDT port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0 acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, 7ff0 (3) failed Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 acpi_lid0: Control Method Lid Switch on acpi0 acpi_button0: Sleep Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82855 host to AGP bridge on hostb0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xe000-0xe7ff,0xc010-0xc010 irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 uhci0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A port 0x1800-0x181f irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci0: [ITHREAD] usb0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb0 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B port 0x1820-0x183f irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci1: [ITHREAD] usb1: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C port 0x1840-0x185f irq 11 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci2: [ITHREAD] usb2: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb2 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0: Intel 82801DB/L/M (ICH4) USB 2.0 controller mem 0xc000-0xc3ff irq 11 at device 29.7 on pci0 ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ehci0: [ITHREAD] usb3: EHCI version 1.0 usb3: companion controllers, 2 ports each
Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:43:01 -0600 Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: I have been tasked with getting a DSL connection across about 10km of no-man's-land to a rural location without internet access. Ideally, all traffic inbetween the two directional antennas would be encrypted. Best encrypted, or at least use point-to-point adhoc in bridge mode rather than point-to-AP unencrypted, which will surely get abused. (Nice, but not entirely required.) 3Mb/s would be great! Something like: LAN-BSDrouter-modem-Antenna~~air~~Antenna-modem-DSL I'm looking for general pointers of both hardware and software to achieve this. I'd like to employ FreeBSD as much as is feasible. This is my first WAN network project, so even newbie pointers and general references would be much appreciated. (Hardware suggestions, books to read, etc.) Reliability is of mild concern, simply because I don't want to drive 10km at 3:00am when something breaks. Tips? References? Advice? I suggest downloading Wireless Networking in the Developing World in language of choice from http://wndw.net/download.html .. a great read, good coverage of theory and lots of practical advice. If you're on a budget, a couple of (say) Dlink or Cisco APs - something with decent external antenna connectors anyway - in bridge mode with two yagi or helical antennae with = 12dBm gain should do 10km line of sight easily. With +15dBm antennae you should get (at least lower) 11g rates, and if you can afford 20+dBm dish grid antennae, so much the faster. Might be worth checking out /usr/ports/net/olsrd (http://www.olsr.org/) As others have said - avoid amplifiers, spend most on good antennae and cables, as short and fat as is practicable. You'll likely want short pigtails between the wireless card or bridge and the longer fat leads. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1
Hi all: Compaq C301TU laptop has a Broadcom chipset based wireless card and i'm unable to make it work on FreeBSD 7.1 Using the ndisgen approach with bcm5wls.sys and bcm5wls.inf files creates a driver file which on kldload causes a kernel panic. Interestingly on the same laptop, there is a ethernet card of RTL 8139, which is also not detected by FreeBSD 7.1 . However, lets not worry about that for the time being. With Gentoo Linux, i've configured the Linux kernel to use the native bcm43xx driver and using the bcm43xx-fwcutter, i've been able to install the firmware and get the wireless card to work. Here is the lspci -v -nn details as collected from the Linux side. 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1364 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at 8800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME- Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: Data: Capabilities: [d0] Express (v1) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s 4us, L1 unlimited ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- FLReset- DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop- MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend- LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s, Latency L0 4us, L1 64us ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot- LnkCtl: ASPM L0s Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+ ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting ? Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel ? Kernel driver in use: bcm43xx Kernel modules: bcm43xx i don't intend to buy another wireless add-on card or another old laptop. Would be thankful, if anybody can suggest how i can get the Wireless card work to with FreeBSD 7.1 or FreeBSD 8.0 snapshot. Additional tips for getting the ethernet card to work will also be appreciated. -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1
Interestingly on the same laptop, there is a ethernet card of RTL 8139, which is also not detected by FreeBSD 7.1 . However, lets not something is wrong. for sure RTL 8139 is perfectly supported. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:51:05PM +, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: Compaq C301TU laptop has a Broadcom chipset based wireless card and i'm unable to make it work on FreeBSD 7.1 There are no Broadcom wireless drivers in 7.1. The command 'apropos broadcom' only returns a couple of wired ethernet drivers, a crypto accellerator and a bleutooth device. DragonFly BSD has a bwi(4) driver that supports the BCM430x/4318, but no mention of the 4311. snip Interestingly on the same laptop, there is a ethernet card of RTL 8139, which is also not detected by FreeBSD 7.1 . However, lets not worry about that for the time being. Both the RealTek 8139 and the RealTek 8139C+ should work, but they use different drivers. See re(4) and rl(4). Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp0vAnnfy4lW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1
On Monday 23 February 2009 2:51:05 pm Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: Compaq C301TU laptop has a Broadcom chipset based wireless card and i'm unable to make it work on FreeBSD 7.1 Using the ndisgen approach with bcm5wls.sys and bcm5wls.inf files creates a driver file which on kldload causes a kernel panic. Interestingly on the same laptop, there is a ethernet card of RTL 8139, which is also not detected by FreeBSD 7.1 . However, lets not worry about that for the time being. With Gentoo Linux, i've configured the Linux kernel to use the native bcm43xx driver and using the bcm43xx-fwcutter, i've been able to install the firmware and get the wireless card to work. Here is the lspci -v -nn details as collected from the Linux side. 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1364 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at 8800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME- Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: Data: Capabilities: [d0] Express (v1) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s 4us, L1 unlimited ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- FLReset- DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop- MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend- LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s, Latency L0 4us, L1 64us ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot- LnkCtl: ASPM L0s Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+ ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting ? Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel ? Kernel driver in use: bcm43xx Kernel modules: bcm43xx i don't intend to buy another wireless add-on card or another old laptop. Would be thankful, if anybody can suggest how i can get the Wireless card work to with FreeBSD 7.1 or FreeBSD 8.0 snapshot. Additional tips for getting the ethernet card to work will also be appreciated. You should take a look in here if your trying to get the BCM4311 up and running: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=170highlight=BCM RTL 8139 seems to be fully supported on 7.1 .. just take a look at: /sys/dev/re/if_re.c Regards -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7.1: iwi problem with intel 2200 pro wireless card
Moving the license agreement phrase did not change the driver/firmware behavior. I changed the firmware timeout setting (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2006-July/008849.html), and this seemed to help somewhat. Now I sometimes pick up a wireless network after rebooting, but the connection is not stable; moreover, I cannot change networks. I've come to the same conclusion, that fixing a broken iwi driver is more trouble than purchasing a cheap wireless card. This machine has undergone a few warranty repairs (including a motherboard replacement). I wonder if that complicates the driver issue. I'm just getting started with FreeBSD; therefore, your replies were especially helpful: Thanks for responding! Best Wishes, John On Friday 20 February 2009 12:32:51 pm Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Erik Johnson wrote: I noticed on your loader.conf that you have the license at the end of WiFi Config. I placed mine at the beginning. as in the example below. Have you tried loading that first? I'm not sure if it makes a difference but might be worth a try. I'm interested in hearing back and keeping in contact since we share similar config for older hardware. --- legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 if_iwi_load=YES wlan_load=YES firmware_load=YES iwi_bss_load=YES iwi_ibss_load=YES iwi_monitor_load=YES The ordering in loader.conf does not matter. I abandoned iwi some time ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-February/003125.htm l You might want to read the whole thread. Disabling bgscan is mentioned there somewhere. IIRC, that is a good idea. Do you really need ibss and monitor? Have you tried not loading three different firmwares at the same time? Last time I used iwi, I did not have to load the firmware manually. Up to 6.1 that was a requirement, but from 6.2 on, iwi could do it automatically. (And it worked better that way, IIRC.) Since the manual page tells you to do so, the loading of the firmware must have changed. When manual loading was required on 6.1, loading multiple at the same time was not a good idea. I never got monitor to receive any packages on 7.0, even after manually loading the firmware. It did work on 6.2, though. ibss was never really reliable. Cheers, Jan Henrik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7.1: iwi problem with intel 2200 pro wireless card
Erik Johnson wrote: I noticed on your loader.conf that you have the license at the end of WiFi Config. I placed mine at the beginning. as in the example below. Have you tried loading that first? I'm not sure if it makes a difference but might be worth a try. I'm interested in hearing back and keeping in contact since we share similar config for older hardware. --- legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 if_iwi_load=YES wlan_load=YES firmware_load=YES iwi_bss_load=YES iwi_ibss_load=YES iwi_monitor_load=YES The ordering in loader.conf does not matter. I abandoned iwi some time ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-February/003125.html You might want to read the whole thread. Disabling bgscan is mentioned there somewhere. IIRC, that is a good idea. Do you really need ibss and monitor? Have you tried not loading three different firmwares at the same time? Last time I used iwi, I did not have to load the firmware manually. Up to 6.1 that was a requirement, but from 6.2 on, iwi could do it automatically. (And it worked better that way, IIRC.) Since the manual page tells you to do so, the loading of the firmware must have changed. When manual loading was required on 6.1, loading multiple at the same time was not a good idea. I never got monitor to receive any packages on 7.0, even after manually loading the firmware. It did work on 6.2, though. ibss was never really reliable. Cheers, Jan Henrik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7.1: iwi problem with intel 2200 pro wireless card
Hello John, I also have a T42p that I just installed FreeBSD 7.1 onto. I use the Intel 2200BG as well, so hopefully this helps. I noticed on your loader.conf that you have the license at the end of WiFi Config. I placed mine at the beginning. as in the example below. Have you tried loading that first? I'm not sure if it makes a difference but might be worth a try. I'm interested in hearing back and keeping in contact since we share similar config for older hardware. --- legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 if_iwi_load=YES wlan_load=YES firmware_load=YES iwi_bss_load=YES iwi_ibss_load=YES iwi_monitor_load=YES - Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to troubleshoot why ath0 can't connect to a passwordless wireless network?
On 2/10/09, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Quoting Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com: wlandebug(8) for general 802.11 debuging ath driver have it's own debug options ... documented in source code Thanks! In the debug log I see the line: ath0: ieee80211_scan_update: no scanner suppport for mode 8 From source code I see that mode 8 is IEEE80211_M_MONITOR. As I understand in 'monitor' mode no packets are being sent or received. In monitor mode packets can be only received. The question is why you are using monitor mode at all ... When I try to turn it off with 'ifconfig ath0 -monotor' interface still seems to stay in monitor mode. Why wouldn't -monitor turn monitor mode off? Yuri -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
How to troubleshoot why ath0 can't connect to a passwordless wireless network?
I have a wireless network without password that my linux box easily connects to. On FreeBSD 'ifconfig ath0 up scan' command shows it. 'ifconfig ath0 ssid my-ssid up' brings interface to 'associated' state. But dhclient fails set it up. I have another device on the same system: ral0. It connect to this network without problems. What can I do to understand what may be a problem with ath0 in my case? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to troubleshoot why ath0 can't connect to a passwordless wireless network?
On 2/9/09, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I have a wireless network without password that my linux box easily connects to. On FreeBSD 'ifconfig ath0 up scan' command shows it. 'ifconfig ath0 ssid my-ssid up' brings interface to 'associated' state. But dhclient fails set it up. I have another device on the same system: ral0. It connect to this network without problems. What can I do to understand what may be a problem with ath0 in my case? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org wlandebug(8) for general 802.11 debuging ath driver have it's own debug options ... documented in source code -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to troubleshoot why ath0 can't connect to a passwordless wireless network?
Quoting Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com: wlandebug(8) for general 802.11 debuging ath driver have it's own debug options ... documented in source code Thanks! In the debug log I see the line: ath0: ieee80211_scan_update: no scanner suppport for mode 8 From source code I see that mode 8 is IEEE80211_M_MONITOR. As I understand in 'monitor' mode no packets are being sent or received. When I try to turn it off with 'ifconfig ath0 -monotor' interface still seems to stay in monitor mode. Why wouldn't -monitor turn monitor mode off? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to troubleshoot why ath0 can't connect to a passwordless wireless network?
Yuri wrote: Quoting Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com: wlandebug(8) for general 802.11 debuging ath driver have it's own debug options ... documented in source code Thanks! In the debug log I see the line: ath0: ieee80211_scan_update: no scanner suppport for mode 8 From source code I see that mode 8 is IEEE80211_M_MONITOR. As I understand in 'monitor' mode no packets are being sent or received. When I try to turn it off with 'ifconfig ath0 -monotor' interface still seems to stay in monitor mode. Why wouldn't -monitor turn monitor mode off? Yuri Perhaps it is just a typo but shouldn't it be 'ifconfig ath0 -monitor' instead of 'ifconfig ath0 -monotor' ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Sierra Wireless AC595U
Hi all. Is there any plans to add support for this device? It seems that NetBSD has the code for it almost for a year now. Currently 7-STABLE doesn't recognize this device. Adding it to ubsa.c also gives nothing - the device is detected properly but doesn't work at all: Feb 10 06:58:11 limbo kernel: ucom0: Sierra Wireless, Incorporated Sierra Wireless AC595U Device, class 0/0, rev 1.10/0.02, addr 2 on uhub2 Feb 10 06:59:18 limbo kernel: ucom0: ubsa_request: STALLED Feb 10 06:59:18 limbo kernel: ucom0: ubsa_request: STALLED Feb 10 06:59:18 limbo kernel: ucom0: ubsa_request: STALLED Feb 10 06:59:23 limbo kernel: ucom0: ubsa_request: TIMEOUT Feb 10 06:59:28 limbo kernel: ucom0: ubsa_request: TIMEOUT Feb 10 06:59:33 limbo kernel: ucom0: ubsa_request: STALLED Is there any chances it would work? Can provide shell access to system with this it. -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
wireless card won't associate
Hello, I've been trying to get a wireless card of mine working with a new install of freebsd 7.1, but I've been unable to associate with the access point. From pciconf -lv, it appears the chipset is Ralink RT2561/RT61. The documentation for ral doesn't mention this particular chipset, but there seems to be a consensus on various forums that this chipset is supported by ral. I've added the following lines to /boot/loader.conf: if_ral_load=YES wlan_scan_ap_load=YES wlan_scan_sta_load=YES wlan_wep_load=YES And am using the following ifconfig command ifconfig ral0 ssid MYSSID authmod shared wepmode on \ deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:MYKEY But ifconfig shows status as no carrier. The authentication is all correct (I've triple checked everything, and am using the same authentication on a linux laptop). The signal strength should be fine (the box was previously running linux, with very good signal strength). When I ran wlandebug -i ral0 +scan+auth+assoc the only error I receive is: shared key auth failed (reason 15) At this point I'm stymied. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Good wireless cards for freebsd
Im looking to go wireless on my network an after some easy but good wireless NIC cards that freebsd has good support for. The network card im looking at is *P-Link Wireless N PCI Adapter, Atheros, 2T2R, 2.4GHz, 802.11n Draft 2.0, 802.11g/b *Thoughts and experiences welcomed.* * ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD 7.1: iwi problem with intel 2200 pro wireless card
Dear FreeBSD-questions Group, I recently installed freeBSD 7.1 on an IBM Thinkpad T42 (types 2378). The system will not connect to the internet wirelessly using the Intel 2200 pro wireless card. The problem is described in the following and some relevent files (/var/log/messages, /var/run/dmesg.boot, /boot/loader.conf) are pasted below my signature. Thanks in advance for any help configuring this feature. When I attempt to connect to the internet using the 'ifconfig iwi0 up scan' command the terminal gives no response and in /var/log/messages, 'iwi0: could not load main firmware iwi_bss' is given as an error. Ocassionally, after a system reboot the wireless card will connect to a local network. However attempting to change wireless networks causes the wireless to crash. Therefore, I do not think the problem is hardware based. Additionally, I have checked the hardware using Windows XP device manager (Windows XP is installed on a separated hard drive). The wireless works fine on Windows XP. I have looked through message boards without luck finding a solution for my system. Please let me know if this question ought to be sent elsewhere, I am a new user. Thanks again for taking the time to read this. Best Regards, John from /var/log/messages: (system response to the command ifconfig iwi0 up scan) Jan 30 01:39:02 JohnsThinkpad kernel: iwi0: timeout processing command blocks for iwi_bss firmware Jan 30 01:39:02 JohnsThinkpad kernel: iwi0: could not load main firmware iwi_bss --- from /var/run/dmesg.boot: Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC module_register: module uhub/umass already exists! Module uhub/umass failed to register: 17 Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz (1498.74-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x695 Stepping = 5 Features=0xa7e9f9bfFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,PBE Features2=0x180EST,TM2 real memory = 2146828288 (2047 MB) avail memory = 2091171840 (1994 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) ACPI Warning (tbfadt-0505): Optional field Gpe1Block has zero address or length:0102C/0 [20070320] acpi0: IBM TP-1R on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi_ec0: Embedded Controller: GPE 0x1c, ECDT port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0 acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, 7ff0 (3) failed Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 acpi_lid0: Control Method Lid Switch on acpi0 acpi_button0: Sleep Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82855 host to AGP bridge on hostb0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xe000-0xe7ff,0xc010-0xc010 irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 uhci0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A port 0x1800-0x181f irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci0: [ITHREAD] usb0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb0 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B port 0x1820-0x183f irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci1: [ITHREAD] usb1: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C port 0x1840-0x185f irq 11 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci2: [ITHREAD] usb2: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb2 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0: Intel 82801DB/L/M (ICH4) USB 2.0 controller mem 0xc000-0xc3ff irq 11 at device 29.7 on pci0 ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ehci0: [ITHREAD] usb3: EHCI version 1.0 usb3: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2 usb3: Intel 82801DB/L/M (ICH4) USB 2.0 controller on ehci0 usb3: USB revision 2.0 uhub3: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb3 uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 cbb0: PCI-CardBus Bridge mem 0xb000-0xbfff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci2
wireless signal strength
Hi. I have recently install FreeBSD-7.1 on my laptop. The laptop used to have windows and linux, but I have replaced linux with FreeBSD because I thought it looked very promising. However, I have one problem: the wireless signal strength seems to be significantly weaker when I am running FreeBSD. On windows I can connect and get online, but when I'm running FreeBSD it keeps connecting and disconnecting, or not even seeing the network at all. Also in linux it was never a problem. Is there something that can be done with this? In linux I was using wireless-tools (iwconfig) and dhclient, which worked fine. Are there perhaps other software that will work better than using ifconfig? /lars ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: wireless signal strength
On 1/30/09, Lars Lonne lonnel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I have recently install FreeBSD-7.1 on my laptop. The laptop used to have windows and linux, but I have replaced linux with FreeBSD because I thought it looked very promising. However, I have one problem: the wireless signal strength seems to be significantly weaker when I am running FreeBSD. On windows I can connect and get online, but when I'm running FreeBSD it keeps connecting and disconnecting, or not even seeing the network at all. Also in linux it was never a problem. Is there something that can be done with this? In linux I was using wireless-tools (iwconfig) and dhclient, which worked fine. Are there perhaps other software that will work better than using ifconfig? what driver? /lars ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Logs from wireless routers disclosing L2/MAC info?
cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) writes: Some of the popular wireless routers have an option to email access/security logs to an account on the Internet. When enabled, the logs contain the last 24 bits of the MAC address of the router's cable modem port, (the rest could be guessed since the brand name is included in the email,) and, the MAC address of the cable modem's router port. Was I potty trained wrong, or is this risky. It could be, but isn't necessarily. Depends on other details of how the network is set up. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Logs from wireless routers disclosing L2/MAC info?
Some of the popular wireless routers have an option to email access/security logs to an account on the Internet. When enabled, the logs contain the last 24 bits of the MAC address of the router's cable modem port, (the rest could be guessed since the brand name is included in the email,) and, the MAC address of the cable modem's router port. Was I potty trained wrong, or is this risky. Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
wireless nic - access point
I installed a D-Link WDA-2320 (Atheros chipset) wireless nic on my FreeBSD 7.1 system. I configured it as an access point. I read many posts on that topic and I am confused whether I need to bridge the wireless network to the wired network or just let the FreeBSD gateway to manage that. So far, I can connect from a wireless client to the FreeBSD Access Point (I can ping any machines on the wired network) but I cannot go beyond that and I would be very pleased if someone would explain what to do in terms of ipfilter NAT or routing to access the Internet from a wireless client. I have 3 network cards: ath0 (wireless - 10.0.2.0/24), bge0 (wired- 10.0.0.0/24), bce0 (Internet - DHCP). The wired network is behind an ipfilter firewall (10.0.0.1) and wired computers are NATed. Thanks for any hints! - Regis -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/wireless-nic---access-point-tp21437407p21437407.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: wireless nic - access point
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 06:00:08 regis505 wrote: I installed a D-Link WDA-2320 (Atheros chipset) wireless nic on my FreeBSD 7.1 system. I configured it as an access point. I read many posts on that topic and I am confused whether I need to bridge the wireless network to the wired network or just let the FreeBSD gateway to manage that. So far, I can connect from a wireless client to the FreeBSD Access Point (I can ping any machines on the wired network) but I cannot go beyond that and I would be very pleased if someone would explain what to do in terms of ipfilter NAT or routing to access the Internet from a wireless client. I have 3 network cards: ath0 (wireless - 10.0.2.0/24), bge0 (wired- 10.0.0.0/24), bce0 (Internet - DHCP). The wired network is behind an ipfilter firewall (10.0.0.1) and wired computers are NATed. If what you're saying is I cannot reach the internet, then you're missing a NAT rule for 10.0.2.0/24 to any. If you're unable to ping hosts on the wireless network other then the AP, then apbridge is likely turned off. Otherwise, in pf syntax: pass in on $int_if from $int_if:network to $wire_if:network \ tag WLAN_LAN keep state label wlan_lan pass in on $wire_if from $wire_if:network to $int_if:network\ tag LAN_WLAN keep state label lan_wlan should be enough to allow traffic from wireless to wire if you're default blocking. I don't know of a real advantage to bridge these, as traffic will go through AP physically regardless. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 3945ABG wireless problems
On Thursday 08 January 2009 22:55:48 Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card. I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF --- Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: detached That's not the right button or it's mapped wrong. It's an USB related switch and the wpi card doesn't do anything with USB. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 3945ABG wireless problems
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.net wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card. I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF --- Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: detached pushing 802.11 button again - Turning ON - Jan 9 07:59:13 desmo root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x03f0 product 0x171d bus uhub0 Jan 9 07:59:13 desmo kernel: ugen0: Broadcom Corp HP Integrated Module, class 224/1, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on uhub0 ifconfig wpi0 up Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: NEWSTATE:INIT Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Resetting the card - clearing any uploaded firmware Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Loading microcode size 0x384 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: firmware status=0x, val=0x4040, result=0x4040 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Status Match! - ntries = 0 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: state changed to 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio transmitter is switched off I notice that I didn't have the license at /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/LICENSE, so I grabbed it from http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz /boot/loader.conf includes the following if_wpi_load=YES wlan_load=YES wlan_amrr_load=YES firmware_load=YES wpifw_load=YES legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 What am I doing wrong here?? These might be of interest to you: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=965 http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.mobile/browse_thread/thread/1f9bed1561f5d676?pli=1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
3945ABG wireless problems
Hi, I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card. I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF --- Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: detached pushing 802.11 button again - Turning ON - Jan 9 07:59:13 desmo root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x03f0 product 0x171d bus uhub0 Jan 9 07:59:13 desmo kernel: ugen0: Broadcom Corp HP Integrated Module, class 224/1, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on uhub0 ifconfig wpi0 up Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: NEWSTATE:INIT Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Resetting the card - clearing any uploaded firmware Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Loading microcode size 0x384 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: firmware status=0x, val=0x4040, result=0x4040 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Status Match! - ntries = 0 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: state changed to 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio transmitter is switched off I notice that I didn't have the license at /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/LICENSE, so I grabbed it from http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz /boot/loader.conf includes the following if_wpi_load=YES wlan_load=YES wlan_amrr_load=YES firmware_load=YES wpifw_load=YES legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 What am I doing wrong here?? Many thanks, Alain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 3945ABG wireless problems
what tha AP you connect ?? maybe , the wlan can not connect a AP, the hardware will turn off ... check your file /etc/wpa_supp**.conf On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.netwrote: Hi, I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card. I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF --- Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: detached pushing 802.11 button again - Turning ON - Jan 9 07:59:13 desmo root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x03f0 product 0x171d bus uhub0 Jan 9 07:59:13 desmo kernel: ugen0: Broadcom Corp HP Integrated Module, class 224/1, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on uhub0 ifconfig wpi0 up Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: NEWSTATE:INIT Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Resetting the card - clearing any uploaded firmware Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Loading microcode size 0x384 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: firmware status=0x, val=0x4040, result=0x4040 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Status Match! - ntries = 0 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: state changed to 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio transmitter is switched off I notice that I didn't have the license at /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/LICENSE, so I grabbed it from http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gzhttp://people.freebsd.org/%7Ebenjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz /boot/loader.conf includes the following if_wpi_load=YES wlan_load=YES wlan_amrr_load=YES firmware_load=YES wpifw_load=YES legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 What am I doing wrong here?? Many thanks, Alain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 3945ABG wireless problems
Actually, I've just sofar tried to perform a 'ifconfig wpi0 list scan' to verify which AP are availableafter I have put the interface up of course. But it just gets stuck on this scandoesn't do anything. info from /var/log/messages Jan 9 13:05:31 desmo sudo: username : TTY=ttyp2 ; PWD=/data/username ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/ifconfig wpi0 scan list Jan 9 13:05:32 desmo kernel: HERER On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 07:55:11PM +0800, PstreeM China wrote: what tha AP you connect ?? maybe , the wlan can not connect a AP, the hardware will turn off ... check your file /etc/wpa_supp**.conf On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.netwrote: Hi, I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card. I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF --- Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: detached pushing 802.11 button again - Turning ON - Jan 9 07:59:13 desmo root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x03f0 product 0x171d bus uhub0 Jan 9 07:59:13 desmo kernel: ugen0: Broadcom Corp HP Integrated Module, class 224/1, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on uhub0 ifconfig wpi0 up Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: NEWSTATE:INIT Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Resetting the card - clearing any uploaded firmware Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Loading microcode size 0x384 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: firmware status=0x, val=0x4040, result=0x4040 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Status Match! - ntries = 0 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: state changed to 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio transmitter is switched off I notice that I didn't have the license at /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/LICENSE, so I grabbed it from http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gzhttp://people.freebsd.org/%7Ebenjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz /boot/loader.conf includes the following if_wpi_load=YES wlan_load=YES wlan_amrr_load=YES firmware_load=YES wpifw_load=YES legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 What am I doing wrong here?? Many thanks, Alain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 3945ABG wireless problems
i don't know what happen ...
i use the 3945ABG too , i use the three config file ...
/boot/loader.conf
/etc/rc.conf
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
you may lose the thried file ,give you for a example.
### the loader.conf file
legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
if_wpi_load=YES
wlan_load=YES
wlan_amrr_load=YES
firmware_load=YES
wpifw_load=YES
wlan_wep_load=YES
wlan_ccmp_load=YES
wlan_tkip_load=YES
the rc.conf file
ifconfig_wpi0=WPA DHCP
the wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
network={
ssid=APSSID
#scan_ssid=2
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk=APpassword
}
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.netwrote:
Actually, I've just sofar tried to perform a 'ifconfig wpi0 list scan' to
verify which AP are availableafter I have put the interface up of
course. But it just gets stuck on this scandoesn't do anything.
info from /var/log/messages
Jan 9 13:05:31 desmo sudo: username : TTY=ttyp2 ; PWD=/data/username ;
USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/ifconfig wpi0 scan list
Jan 9 13:05:32 desmo kernel: HERER
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 07:55:11PM +0800, PstreeM China wrote:
what tha AP you connect ??
maybe , the wlan can not connect a AP, the hardware will turn off ...
check your file /etc/wpa_supp**.conf
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.net
wrote:
Hi,
I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card.
I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off
pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF
---
Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2)
disconnected
Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: detached
pushing 802.11 button again - Turning ON
-
Jan 9 07:59:13 desmo root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x03f0 product
0x171d bus uhub0
Jan 9 07:59:13 desmo kernel: ugen0: Broadcom Corp HP Integrated
Module,
class 224/1, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on uhub0
ifconfig wpi0 up
Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: NEWSTATE:INIT
Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Resetting the card - clearing any
uploaded
firmware
Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Loading microcode size 0x384
Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: firmware status=0x,
val=0x4040,
result=0x4040
Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Status Match! - ntries = 0
Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version
10e02
alive 1
Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version
10e02
alive 1
Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off
Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: state changed to 1
Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio transmitter is switched off
I notice that I didn't have the license at
/usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/LICENSE, so I grabbed it from
http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gzhttp://people.freebsd.org/%7Ebenjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz
http://people.freebsd.org/%7Ebenjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz
/boot/loader.conf includes the following
if_wpi_load=YES
wlan_load=YES
wlan_amrr_load=YES
firmware_load=YES
wpifw_load=YES
legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
What am I doing wrong here??
Many thanks,
Alain
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Re: wireless on a hp pavillion dv5000
Glen Barber wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have installed the ndis stuff and it sees the mac address but when i push the power button on the wireless (build into the laptop) it does not power on the wireless card any ideas? Do you have 'ifconfig_ndis=your settings here' in rc.conf? Are you sure by pressing that button you haven't turned the wireless card off? (In my experience with ndis0 and hotkeys, it doesn't work well.) You're not giving is much to work with here. When i was using the ndis interface on my dv2000 with broadcom4311 the wifi light never came on and the switch had no function. you could be experiencing the same situation. my wifi did however, work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
wireless on a hp pavillion dv5000
I have installed the ndis stuff and it sees the mac address but when i push the power button on the wireless (build into the laptop) it does not power on the wireless card any ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: wireless on a hp pavillion dv5000
Same card but no carrier... what did you do to see the carrier? On 1/5/09, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: Glen Barber wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have installed the ndis stuff and it sees the mac address but when i push the power button on the wireless (build into the laptop) it does not power on the wireless card any ideas? Do you have 'ifconfig_ndis=your settings here' in rc.conf? Are you sure by pressing that button you haven't turned the wireless card off? (In my experience with ndis0 and hotkeys, it doesn't work well.) You're not giving is much to work with here. When i was using the ndis interface on my dv2000 with broadcom4311 the wifi light never came on and the switch had no function. you could be experiencing the same situation. my wifi did however, work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: wireless on a hp pavillion dv5000
Aryeh Friedman wrote: Same card but no carrier... what did you do to see the carrier? On 1/5/09, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: normally i issued all the config options with ifconfig at one time, ie the ssid so on. ifconfig ndis0 up ssid ssid. something like that. i put the card back in and do it again to make sure. right now i'm using an intel card. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
On Monday 22 December 2008 14:48:52 Corey Chandler wrote: Failing that, the Linksys WRT54GL isn't a half bad unit. Yes it is a half bad unit. If you make changes to routing or firewall rules, you need to unplug everything, power cycle it, say a prayer and hope it works. I never got it working correctly at a previous location. Over here it works, but have no need for it anymore, since a FreeBSD wireless router is doing it's job. There are many advantages of using a full-blown computer for (wireless) routing/nat/firewall, most notably the diagnostics that are available. Our FreeBSD nat is using: PPP/ADSL to provider: f...@pci0:2:8:0:class=0x02 card=0x30138086 chip=0x24498086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82559ER 82559ER Integrated 10Base-T/100Base-TX Ethernet Controller' class = network subclass = ethernet Wireless: a...@pci0:2:10:0: class=0x02 card=0x7057144f chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' device = 'AR5212, AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter' class = network subclass = ethernet Wire, soon to be upgraded to Gbit: x...@pci0:2:11:0:class=0x02 card=0x100010b7 chip=0x920010b7 rev=0x78 hdr=0x00 vendor = '3COM Corp, Networking Division' device = '3C905 CX-TX-M Fast EtherLink for PC Management NIC' class = network subclass = ethernet ISC dhcpd, pf including altq provide the services. Currently connected with an Intel wpi(4), mother in law a few houses down uses some linksys card on windows, daughter uses a D-Link wireless with atheros chip on Kubuntu. Currently using WEP, but that'll change when lagg(4) will support WPA on wireless interfaces or when I get tired of waiting and decide to netgraph it myself somehow. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
Roger Olofsson wrote: Corey Chandler skrev: Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. Good man! I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless router to pass everything through to the internal LAN that I already have. It's called Bridge mode on most APs-- it does exactly what you describe. Just make sure things like DHCP server are turned off or you'll see some... odd breakages. Also I don't know too much about security, like how to prevent eavesdroppers from connecting to my internal network. One of you mentioned access lists, and I assume that means I tell the wireless router which MAC addresses it accepts, and nothing else. Ugh. MAC addresses are trivial to spoof-- I usually don't bother with using them for security, although I do use 'em to ensure that particular machines always inherit particular addresses. Is there any other way to provide security? Like a password-protected network? What are the buzzwords for these security schemes? Which security scheme do you recommend for preventing random people within proximity from connecting to my internal netowrk? Absolutely. Google for WPA or WPA2; WEP has been broken and is trivial to bruteforce, so I'd not bother with that. Once you get the unit in, feel free to email me off list for configuration questions; it sounds like a fun project! -- CJC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.0/1861 - Release Date: 2008-12-22 11:23 Hello Corey, I don't use 'bridge mode'. I set a normal LAN ip for the wifi router - as well as ips to the FreeBSD gateway and dns. This is for the LAN part of the router - then another internal LAN ip for the wifi part. To examplify. Wifi router LAN part - ip 192.168.0.20, gateway 192.168.0.1, dns 192.168.0.10 and 192.168.0.11. Wifi wifi part - network 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.10. The problem with doing that is a lot of systems start throwing weird errors in a double NAT environment. I'd probably avoid that step and restrict wireless to its own VLAN if I were to go that route... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
Mel wrote: On Monday 22 December 2008 14:48:52 Corey Chandler wrote: Failing that, the Linksys WRT54GL isn't a half bad unit. Yes it is a half bad unit. Absolutely-- if you're running out of the box firmware. I use DD-WRT or Tomato specifically to get around the issues you describe. The reason I go for the GL is that it's a more robust platform than their standard wrt-54g, which for some ungodly reason they started stripping flash and processing power out of after their switch to VxWorks. --CJC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:27:56 -0800 Corey Chandler li...@sequestered.net wrote: Mel wrote: On Monday 22 December 2008 14:48:52 Corey Chandler wrote: Failing that, the Linksys WRT54GL isn't a half bad unit. Yes it is a half bad unit. Absolutely-- if you're running out of the box firmware. I use DD-WRT or Tomato specifically to get around the issues you describe. The reason I go for the GL is that it's a more robust platform than their standard wrt-54g, which for some ungodly reason they started stripping flash and processing power out of after their switch to VxWorks. Probably because they realised they could get away with less memory and a slower CPU because code runs more efficiently on VxWorks vs. Linux on the same hardware. Of course it also provides fewer features than Linux, so I'd prefer a Linux-based router over VxWorks. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
Corey Chandler skrev: Roger Olofsson wrote: Corey Chandler skrev: Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. Good man! I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless router to pass everything through to the internal LAN that I already have. It's called Bridge mode on most APs-- it does exactly what you describe. Just make sure things like DHCP server are turned off or you'll see some... odd breakages. Also I don't know too much about security, like how to prevent eavesdroppers from connecting to my internal network. One of you mentioned access lists, and I assume that means I tell the wireless router which MAC addresses it accepts, and nothing else. Ugh. MAC addresses are trivial to spoof-- I usually don't bother with using them for security, although I do use 'em to ensure that particular machines always inherit particular addresses. Is there any other way to provide security? Like a password-protected network? What are the buzzwords for these security schemes? Which security scheme do you recommend for preventing random people within proximity from connecting to my internal netowrk? Absolutely. Google for WPA or WPA2; WEP has been broken and is trivial to bruteforce, so I'd not bother with that. Once you get the unit in, feel free to email me off list for configuration questions; it sounds like a fun project! -- CJC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.0/1861 - Release Date: 2008-12-22 11:23 Hello Corey, I don't use 'bridge mode'. I set a normal LAN ip for the wifi router - as well as ips to the FreeBSD gateway and dns. This is for the LAN part of the router - then another internal LAN ip for the wifi part. To examplify. Wifi router LAN part - ip 192.168.0.20, gateway 192.168.0.1, dns 192.168.0.10 and 192.168.0.11. Wifi wifi part - network 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.10. The problem with doing that is a lot of systems start throwing weird errors in a double NAT environment. I'd probably avoid that step and restrict wireless to its own VLAN if I were to go that route... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.0/1865 - Release Date: 2008-12-26 13:01 Hello Corey, There is no double NAT involved. /Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
On Saturday 27 December 2008 16:49:54 Roger Olofsson wrote: Corey Chandler skrev: Roger Olofsson wrote: Corey Chandler skrev: Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. Good man! I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless router to pass everything through to the internal LAN that I already have. It's called Bridge mode on most APs-- it does exactly what you describe. Just make sure things like DHCP server are turned off or you'll see some... odd breakages. Also I don't know too much about security, like how to prevent eavesdroppers from connecting to my internal network. One of you mentioned access lists, and I assume that means I tell the wireless router which MAC addresses it accepts, and nothing else. Ugh. MAC addresses are trivial to spoof-- I usually don't bother with using them for security, although I do use 'em to ensure that particular machines always inherit particular addresses. Is there any other way to provide security? Like a password-protected network? What are the buzzwords for these security schemes? Which security scheme do you recommend for preventing random people within proximity from connecting to my internal netowrk? Absolutely. Google for WPA or WPA2; WEP has been broken and is trivial to bruteforce, so I'd not bother with that. Once you get the unit in, feel free to email me off list for configuration questions; it sounds like a fun project! -- CJC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org --- - No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.0/1861 - Release Date: 2008-12-22 11:23 Hello Corey, I don't use 'bridge mode'. I set a normal LAN ip for the wifi router - as well as ips to the FreeBSD gateway and dns. This is for the LAN part of the router - then another internal LAN ip for the wifi part. To examplify. Wifi router LAN part - ip 192.168.0.20, gateway 192.168.0.1, dns 192.168.0.10 and 192.168.0.11. Wifi wifi part - network 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.10. The problem with doing that is a lot of systems start throwing weird errors in a double NAT environment. I'd probably avoid that step and restrict wireless to its own VLAN if I were to go that route... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.0/1865 - Release Date: 2008-12-26 13:01 Hello Corey, There is no double NAT involved. /Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org That's correct. I have a D-link WBR-1310 here at home. Don't know if it's a bad or hip piece. I only know it was inside my budget and it does its job perfectly. Like I said on my first post to this thread, The WAN port is not used, hence no NAT inside the unit. Configured its LAN port ip with one of my LAN, plugged it to the switch, enabled WAP2 and assign a free LAN ip to any wireless device I want to allow on our home (plus the WAP key, of course).Voila, access point. IF DHCP is wanted, I can use the unit's own but since its only one laptop I assigned a static IP to it. The only NAT happens on the freebsd machine. Don't know about the reputation of the Linksys WRT54GL. The only one I've tried I borrowed from a friend and worked very nicely also. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:31:56PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. That's probably the easiest way. I already have. Also I don't know too much about security, like how to prevent eavesdroppers from connecting to my internal network. There are some things you could do. - Use WPA2 if available or else at least WPA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access] - When using WPA with pre-shared keys, use long and random generated pre-shared keys. And change them often. - You can turn off the broadcasting of the SSID [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSID] to discourage casual snooping. This will not deter a determined attacker, however. - If you are using the pf(4) firewall you could use authpf(8) as an additional security measure. [http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/authpf.html] It requires users to log in via ssh(8) and alters the firewall rules as long as the ssh session exists. This requires that the user must have additional authentication in the form of passwords or ssh keys in order to use the network. It provides an additional layer of access control. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpN6XRlNFJcB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Wireless router?
Nerius Landys skrev: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless router to pass everything through to the internal LAN that I already have. Also I don't know too much about security, like how to prevent eavesdroppers from connecting to my internal network. One of you mentioned access lists, and I assume that means I tell the wireless router which MAC addresses it accepts, and nothing else. Is there any other way to provide security? Like a password-protected network? What are the buzzwords for these security schemes? Which security scheme do you recommend for preventing random people within proximity from connecting to my internal netowrk? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.0/1861 - Release Date: 2008-12-22 11:23 Hello again Nerius, You have understood the MAC filtering correctly. You should also encrypt the wifi traffic by using at least WPA encryption. For most wifi routers this is a checkbox and a key or a passphrase that you enter. All clients that wants access and have their MAC address in the access list will have to enter the passphrase/key on the first connect. This means that you control the MAC address list - all new wifi devices that wants to connect to your wifi LAN needs to get added to the MAC access list - manually by you. You also control the encryption passphrase - all wifi clients that wants to connect to your wifi LAN need to know the encryption passphrase. If you use WPA for encryption you will have a higher degree of security than using the old and hackable WEP. Of course both the MAC list and the encryption key/passphrase are stored in the wifi router - so if you don't set a proper password for admin access to this one - all is lost. You should disable wireless access for admin (remote management) to it - only allow cabled access and use a good strong password. Buzzwords? I dunno - I hope people on the mailing list help me out here... Is there a better/simpler way of doing this? Greetings /Roger For a good laugh ... Enjoy Jason Dixons presentations from the BSDcon on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tvI6JCXD0feature=channel_page or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMmbjJI5su0feature=channel_page ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
Corey Chandler skrev: Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. Good man! I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless router to pass everything through to the internal LAN that I already have. It's called Bridge mode on most APs-- it does exactly what you describe. Just make sure things like DHCP server are turned off or you'll see some... odd breakages. Also I don't know too much about security, like how to prevent eavesdroppers from connecting to my internal network. One of you mentioned access lists, and I assume that means I tell the wireless router which MAC addresses it accepts, and nothing else. Ugh. MAC addresses are trivial to spoof-- I usually don't bother with using them for security, although I do use 'em to ensure that particular machines always inherit particular addresses. Is there any other way to provide security? Like a password-protected network? What are the buzzwords for these security schemes? Which security scheme do you recommend for preventing random people within proximity from connecting to my internal netowrk? Absolutely. Google for WPA or WPA2; WEP has been broken and is trivial to bruteforce, so I'd not bother with that. Once you get the unit in, feel free to email me off list for configuration questions; it sounds like a fun project! -- CJC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.0/1861 - Release Date: 2008-12-22 11:23 Hello Corey, I don't use 'bridge mode'. I set a normal LAN ip for the wifi router - as well as ips to the FreeBSD gateway and dns. This is for the LAN part of the router - then another internal LAN ip for the wifi part. To examplify. Wifi router LAN part - ip 192.168.0.20, gateway 192.168.0.1, dns 192.168.0.10 and 192.168.0.11. Wifi wifi part - network 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.10. MAC addresses are indeed trivial to spoof - but if combined with a wifi encryption key/passphrase it adds to security. Greetings /Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Wireless router?
I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well. Now I'd like to extend my wired network to include wireless. I really have no experience with wireless networks. I have a couple of computers that are wireless-ready (a laptop and a Playstation 3 that I won in a raffle). Is it possible to somehow add some hardware to my FreeBSD router PC to make it into a wireless router? What kind of hardware would I install? What is it called? The PC only has PCI slots, can you recommend a brand and model of wireless server equiptment if such a thing exists? Would a normal wireless card suffice? What model should I get? I would prefer to set up static internal IPs for my wireless network at home, would this be possible? Or is DHCP the way to go (I hesitate at the thought of configuring a DHCP server). Another way to go is to hook up a standalone wireless router appliance to my FreeBSD machine's network interface (one of the interfaces). I already have such a device, I think it's made by Linksys. But then, I would be NAT'ing both through the FreeBSD machine and through the wireless router. So it would be a double-NAT so to speak. Is there anything wrong with that approach? So in a nutshell, I have a wired FreeBSD router with multiple ethernet jacks at home, and I want to extend it to include wireless network. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
On Monday 22 December 2008 18:49:44 Nerius Landys wrote: I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well. Now I'd like to extend my wired network to include wireless. I really have no experience with wireless networks. I have a couple of computers that are wireless-ready (a laptop and a Playstation 3 that I won in a raffle). Is it possible to somehow add some hardware to my FreeBSD router PC to make it into a wireless router? What kind of hardware would I install? What is it called? The PC only has PCI slots, can you recommend a brand and model of wireless server equiptment if such a thing exists? Would a normal wireless card suffice? What model should I get? I would prefer to set up static internal IPs for my wireless network at home, would this be possible? Or is DHCP the way to go (I hesitate at the thought of configuring a DHCP server). Another way to go is to hook up a standalone wireless router appliance to my FreeBSD machine's network interface (one of the interfaces). I already have such a device, I think it's made by Linksys. But then, I would be NAT'ing both through the FreeBSD machine and through the wireless router. So it would be a double-NAT so to speak. Is there anything wrong with that approach? So in a nutshell, I have a wired FreeBSD router with multiple ethernet jacks at home, and I want to extend it to include wireless network. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org If you already have a wireless router, all you have to do is to turn it into an access point to your internal lan. Disable its DHCP server, assign a free LAN IP to the router LAN ethernet,plug one of its LAN ports into your switch and assign free LAN IPs to the wireless cards of your LAN machines. That's what I did here at home and works like a charm. If you need a DHCP server you have to set it up on the FreeBSD router. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
On Monday 22 December 2008 19:05:32 Mario Lobo wrote: On Monday 22 December 2008 18:49:44 Nerius Landys wrote: I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well. Now I'd like to extend my wired network to include wireless. I really have no experience with wireless networks. I have a couple of computers that are wireless-ready (a laptop and a Playstation 3 that I won in a raffle). Is it possible to somehow add some hardware to my FreeBSD router PC to make it into a wireless router? What kind of hardware would I install? What is it called? The PC only has PCI slots, can you recommend a brand and model of wireless server equiptment if such a thing exists? Would a normal wireless card suffice? What model should I get? I would prefer to set up static internal IPs for my wireless network at home, would this be possible? Or is DHCP the way to go (I hesitate at the thought of configuring a DHCP server). Another way to go is to hook up a standalone wireless router appliance to my FreeBSD machine's network interface (one of the interfaces). I already have such a device, I think it's made by Linksys. But then, I would be NAT'ing both through the FreeBSD machine and through the wireless router. So it would be a double-NAT so to speak. Is there anything wrong with that approach? So in a nutshell, I have a wired FreeBSD router with multiple ethernet jacks at home, and I want to extend it to include wireless network. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org If you already have a wireless router, all you have to do is to turn it into an access point to your internal lan. Disable its DHCP server, assign a free LAN IP to the router LAN ethernet,plug one of its LAN ports into your switch and assign free LAN IPs to the wireless cards of your LAN machines. That's what I did here at home and works like a charm. If you need a DHCP server you have to set it up on the FreeBSD router. Sorry for replying to myself but it needed a correction. You CAN use the wireless router as your DHCP server!. Just assign a range from your LAN's IPs. The WAN port won't matter. It won't be used. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
Nerius Landys wrote: I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well. Now I'd like to extend my wired network to include wireless. I really have no experience with wireless networks. I have a couple of computers that are wireless-ready (a laptop and a Playstation 3 that I won in a raffle). Is it possible to somehow add some hardware to my FreeBSD router PC to make it into a wireless router? What kind of hardware would I install? What is it called? The PC only has PCI slots, can you recommend a brand and model of wireless server equiptment if such a thing exists? Would a normal wireless card suffice? What model should I get? Yes, a supported Wireless net card would suffice. It can be configured to work in Access Point mode, essentially what a cheap wireless router would. Instructions in section 32.3.5 here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html While I haven't used FreeBSD in this mode, from my experience atheros-based (ath(4)) cards work well. I have no less than three Dlink DWL-G520 cards and never had any problems. This is a rather older model now, newer atheros cards may need a newer HAL than the one currently in the source tree (e.g. the Aspire One uses a newer atheros, and needs a custom kernel with some of the original files replaced. I believe -CURRENT has the newer HAL though). I recently also got a Linksys WMP 54G that is based on a Ralink chipset (ral(4)). This also works nicely. I would prefer to set up static internal IPs for my wireless network at home, would this be possible? Sure. I am using static IPs in all my wireless clients. Or is DHCP the way to go (I hesitate at the thought of configuring a DHCP server). Configuring a DHCP server is very easy. I've only used it with wired ethernet though. Have a read at this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-dhcp.html Another way to go is to hook up a standalone wireless router appliance to my FreeBSD machine's network interface (one of the interfaces). I already have such a device, I think it's made by Linksys. But then, I would be NAT'ing both through the FreeBSD machine and through the wireless router. So it would be a double-NAT so to speak. Is there anything wrong with that approach? I've used something similar and it worked. Don't know about possible drawbacks, cause it was only a toy for me. My setup was something like this: Wireless standalone router (built in NAT) -- FreeBSD system as wireless client of the router + wired ethernet card -- FreeBSD NAT using pf / ipfw -- Wired internal ethernet (with DHCP server) -- Wired client(s) So I guess your approach is also possible. So in a nutshell, I have a wired FreeBSD router with multiple ethernet jacks at home, and I want to extend it to include wireless network. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Probably multiple solutions exist, start up by buying a cheap but supported wireless card. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:49:44PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well. Now I'd like to extend my wired network to include wireless. I really have no experience with wireless networks. I have a couple of computers that are wireless-ready (a laptop and a Playstation 3 that I won in a raffle). Is it possible to somehow add some hardware to my FreeBSD router PC to make it into a wireless router? Yes. What kind of hardware would I install? What is it called? Wireless card. The PC only has PCI slots, can you recommend a brand and model of wireless server equiptment if such a thing exists? Would a normal wireless card suffice? Yes What model should I get? Now that's the tricky bit. If you look at the wlan(4) manual page, you will see the supported wireless chipset in the SEE ALSO section. The trick is knowing which chipset a certain card has. It is usually _not_ listed on the box or on the manufacturer's website, because it comes with windoze drivers so most of the users don't give a damn about the chipset. And some manufacturers put different chipsets in different batches of the same card depending on what they can get their hands on. If you see a card that you like and you cannot get the name and type of chipset used, download the windows driver. It will come with an in information file (.inf) that usually contains the name and type of the chipset. I would prefer to set up static internal IPs for my wireless network at home, would this be possible? Or is DHCP the way to go (I hesitate at the thought of configuring a DHCP server). You could use the wlan_acl module to grant access based on the MAC address. But it might be better to do it somewhat more sophisticated and run hostapd(8). Another way to go is to hook up a standalone wireless router appliance to my FreeBSD machine's network interface (one of the interfaces). I already have such a device, I think it's made by Linksys. But then, I would be NAT'ing both through the FreeBSD machine and through the wireless router. So it would be a double-NAT so to speak. Is there anything wrong with that approach? It's probably easier. But you'll have to be on the lookout for vulnerabilities in the router software. When I got a wireless card for my desktop, the idea was to make a wireless conncetion to my laptop. But you have to set up hostapd on the access point, and wpa_supplicant on the laptop. And the manual pages in question don't give an overview of the process, and neither does the handbook. The section of the handbook dealing with wireless networks is outdated and in need of expert attention. Unfortunately I didn't get far enough to be that expert. In the end it was much easier and faster for me to just plug a cross-cable into the laptop from the desktop. (fast=nice when you're running rsync(1) or if you're transferring dumps via nc(1)) Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpr6YmGn2WIN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Wireless router?
Nerius Landys skrev: I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well. Now I'd like to extend my wired network to include wireless. I really have no experience with wireless networks. I have a couple of computers that are wireless-ready (a laptop and a Playstation 3 that I won in a raffle). Is it possible to somehow add some hardware to my FreeBSD router PC to make it into a wireless router? What kind of hardware would I install? What is it called? The PC only has PCI slots, can you recommend a brand and model of wireless server equiptment if such a thing exists? Would a normal wireless card suffice? What model should I get? I would prefer to set up static internal IPs for my wireless network at home, would this be possible? Or is DHCP the way to go (I hesitate at the thought of configuring a DHCP server). Another way to go is to hook up a standalone wireless router appliance to my FreeBSD machine's network interface (one of the interfaces). I already have such a device, I think it's made by Linksys. But then, I would be NAT'ing both through the FreeBSD machine and through the wireless router. So it would be a double-NAT so to speak. Is there anything wrong with that approach? So in a nutshell, I have a wired FreeBSD router with multiple ethernet jacks at home, and I want to extend it to include wireless network. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.0/1861 - Release Date: 2008-12-22 11:23 Hello Nerius, I simply bought a standard wireless router, turned off all services in it except the access list and plugged it in the LAN. The access list filters on mac addresses and that level of security is fine where I live. The wireless router does have firewall, dhcp, port triggering and such but I disabled all of those since my FreeBSDs do all of that already. The wireless router has one port for internet and four ports as a normal switch, I don't use the internet port. I just plug in the ethernet cable in the switch part as uplink. I considered having a wifi nic as accesspoint in the FreeBSD main router, however, it was better for me to be able to place the wifi router for optimal range of the wifi. Turned out that the centre point for wifi is not the same as where the main router is Greetings /Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: snip So in a nutshell, I have a wired FreeBSD router with multiple ethernet jacks at home, and I want to extend it to include wireless network. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. If you have another PCI slot available in your router, one of these should work: http://www.provantage.com/scripts/search.dll?QUERY=pci+802.11gSubmit.x=0Submit.y=0 HTH, Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
Roger Olofsson wrote: Nerius Landys skrev: I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well. Now I'd like to extend my wired network to include wireless. I really have no experience with wireless networks. I have a couple of computers that are wireless-ready (a laptop and a Playstation 3 that I won in a raffle). Is it possible to somehow add some hardware to my FreeBSD router PC to make it into a wireless router? What kind of hardware would I install? What is it called? The PC only has PCI slots, can you recommend a brand and model of wireless server equiptment if such a thing exists? Would a normal wireless card suffice? What model should I get? I would prefer to set up static internal IPs for my wireless network at home, would this be possible? Or is DHCP the way to go (I hesitate at the thought of configuring a DHCP server). Another way to go is to hook up a standalone wireless router appliance to my FreeBSD machine's network interface (one of the interfaces). I already have such a device, I think it's made by Linksys. But then, I would be NAT'ing both through the FreeBSD machine and through the wireless router. So it would be a double-NAT so to speak. Is there anything wrong with that approach? So in a nutshell, I have a wired FreeBSD router with multiple ethernet jacks at home, and I want to extend it to include wireless network. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.0/1861 - Release Date: 2008-12-22 11:23 Hello Nerius, I simply bought a standard wireless router, turned off all services in it except the access list and plugged it in the LAN. The access list filters on mac addresses and that level of security is fine where I live. The wireless router does have firewall, dhcp, port triggering and such but I disabled all of those since my FreeBSDs do all of that already. The wireless router has one port for internet and four ports as a normal switch, I don't use the internet port. I just plug in the ethernet cable in the switch part as uplink. I considered having a wifi nic as accesspoint in the FreeBSD main router, however, it was better for me to be able to place the wifi router for optimal range of the wifi. Turned out that the centre point for wifi is not the same as where the main router is Greetings /Roger This is definitely the route I'd go. I'm a BIG fan of the Buffalo wireless access points if they've re-entered the channel near you (a patent troll prevented their sale for the last 18 months, but that court case was just overturned), as they support DD-WRT. Failing that, the Linksys WRT54GL isn't a half bad unit. Custom firmware (dd-wrt, OpenWRT, Tomato) also give you a lot finer grained control over what happens on the AP. -- CJC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless router to pass everything through to the internal LAN that I already have. Also I don't know too much about security, like how to prevent eavesdroppers from connecting to my internal network. One of you mentioned access lists, and I assume that means I tell the wireless router which MAC addresses it accepts, and nothing else. Is there any other way to provide security? Like a password-protected network? What are the buzzwords for these security schemes? Which security scheme do you recommend for preventing random people within proximity from connecting to my internal netowrk? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wireless router?
Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. Good man! I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless router to pass everything through to the internal LAN that I already have. It's called Bridge mode on most APs-- it does exactly what you describe. Just make sure things like DHCP server are turned off or you'll see some... odd breakages. Also I don't know too much about security, like how to prevent eavesdroppers from connecting to my internal network. One of you mentioned access lists, and I assume that means I tell the wireless router which MAC addresses it accepts, and nothing else. Ugh. MAC addresses are trivial to spoof-- I usually don't bother with using them for security, although I do use 'em to ensure that particular machines always inherit particular addresses. Is there any other way to provide security? Like a password-protected network? What are the buzzwords for these security schemes? Which security scheme do you recommend for preventing random people within proximity from connecting to my internal netowrk? Absolutely. Google for WPA or WPA2; WEP has been broken and is trivial to bruteforce, so I'd not bother with that. Once you get the unit in, feel free to email me off list for configuration questions; it sounds like a fun project! -- CJC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
wireless scan: 'ifconfig iface scan' hangs often
I use wireless with this device: ath0: Atheros 5212 mem 0xcffe-0xcffe irq 16 at device 5.0 on pci0 and very often (most of the times) 'ifconfig ath0 scan' hangs. First time I do scan it usually succeeds but the second and subsequent runs of this command hang in 50+% of cases. It hangs equally when I am trying to run this command when network is associated and running and down. Is this a bug in driver or what the problem might be? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless scan: 'ifconfig iface scan' hangs often
Em Ter, 2008-12-09 às 12:31 -0800, Yuri escreveu: I use wireless with this device: ath0: Atheros 5212 mem 0xcffe-0xcffe irq 16 at device 5.0 on pci0 and very often (most of the times) 'ifconfig ath0 scan' hangs. First time I do scan it usually succeeds but the second and subsequent runs of this command hang in 50+% of cases. It hangs equally when I am trying to run this command when network is associated and running and down. Is this a bug in driver or what the problem might be? Yuri Hello Yuri try using ifconfig ath0 list scan it will list the contents of the cache in the sip and never hangs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless scan: 'ifconfig iface scan' hangs often
Sérgio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: try using ifconfig ath0 list scan it will list the contents of the cache in the sip and never hangs Sérgio, This works but what if I need to update cache? Cache update hangs. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless scan: 'ifconfig iface scan' hangs often
As long as I understand, the chip updates the cache by its self.. so there is no need to deal with the worry about the chip... see options bgscan of ifconfig Hope this will help ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with wireless network.
On my windows OS I can connect to the router, and also get DHCP service. On the same computer, running FreeBSD 7.0 It will not get DHCP service. Sometimes it will connect to the router, but does not get DHCP service. Then it will not connect anymore. This same computer, using the same FreeBSD used to connect to the interent, and I could go surfing. Now it only times out. I have a fresh install of FreeBSD 7.0, and can not solve this problem. Thanks for your help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with wireless network.
On Saturday 29 November 2008 17:40:18 Christopher Joyner wrote: On my windows OS I can connect to the router, and also get DHCP service. On the same computer, running FreeBSD 7.0 It will not get DHCP service. Sometimes it will connect to the router, but does not get DHCP service. Then it will not connect anymore. This same computer, using the same FreeBSD used to connect to the interent, and I could go surfing. Now it only times out. I have a fresh install of FreeBSD 7.0, and can not solve this problem. Without either ifconfig -a output or a psychic, we can't either. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with wireless network.
This same computer, using the same FreeBSD used to connect to the interent, and I could go surfing. Now it only times out. I have a fresh install of FreeBSD 7.0, and can not solve this problem. probably nobody can solve your problem without ANY precise description. your hardware, your ifconfig, logs etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Missing Driver and Wireless Not detected
I am installing FreeBSD 7.1 Beta 2 on my laptop model Acer Aspire 4530 1) Atheros AR5B91 is not detected Does anyone know how to get the drivers or patch it [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0:0:class=0x05 card=0x014a1025 chip=0x075410de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = memory subclass = RAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:1:0:class=0x060100 card=0x014a1025 chip=0x075e10de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = bridge subclass = PCI-ISA [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:1:1:class=0x0c0500 card=0x014a1025 chip=0x075210de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = serial bus subclass = SMBus [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:1:3:class=0x0b4000 card=0x014a1025 chip=0x075310de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = processor [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:1:4:class=0x05 card=0x014a1025 chip=0x056810de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = memory subclass = RAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:2:0:class=0x0c0310 card=0x014a1025 chip=0x077b10de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:2:1:class=0x0c0320 card=0x014a1025 chip=0x077c10de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:4:0:class=0x0c0310 card=0x014a1025 chip=0x077d10de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:4:1:class=0x0c0320 card=0x014a1025 chip=0x077e10de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:7:0:class=0x040300 card=0x014a1025 chip=0x077410de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:8:0:class=0x060401 card=0x014a1025 chip=0x075a10de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:9:0:class=0x010601 card=0x014a1025 chip=0x0ad510de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = mass storage [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:11:0: class=0x060400 card=0x10de chip=0x056910de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:19:0: class=0x060400 card=0x10de chip=0x077a10de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:20:0: class=0x060400 card=0x10de chip=0x077a10de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:21:0: class=0x060400 card=0x10de chip=0x077a10de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:24:0: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x13001022 rev=0x40 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)' device = '(Family 11h) Athlon 64/Opteron/Sempron HyperTransport Technology Configuration' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:24:1: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x13011022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)' device = '(Family 11h) Athlon 64/Opteron/Sempron Address Map' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:24:2: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x13021022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)' device = '(Family 11h) Athlon 64/Opteron/Sempron DRAM Controller' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:24:3: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x13031022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)' device = '(Family 11h) Athlon 64/Opteron/Sempron Miscellaneous Control' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:24:4: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x13041022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)' device = '(Family 11h) Athlon 64/Opteron/Sempron Link Control' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2:0:0:class=0x03 card=0x014a1025 chip=0x084410de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = display subclass = VGA [EMAIL PROTECTED]:8:0:0:class=0x02 card=0x014a1025 chip=0x168414e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' class = network subclass = ethernet [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x03031a32 chip=0x002a168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' class = network -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Missing-Driver-and-Wireless-Not-detected-tp20503940p20503940.html Sent from the freebsd
Re: Wireless Nic rtl8187se
Wilson Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi people, i recently bought a MSI Wind U100x and couldnt configure my wireless nic because it was not identified, how can i identify my wireless nic? Was it probed on boot at all? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wireless Nic rtl8187se
Hi people, i recently bought a MSI Wind U100x and couldnt configure my wireless nic because it was not identified, how can i identify my wireless nic? thanks, Wilson Ribeiro Consultor de Tecnologia da Informação e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 55 21 34117748 mobile: 55 21 82424280 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fail with wireless network configuration with SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
Paul B. Mahol wrote: send output of: # ifconfig -v wi0 Hi. Thanks for trying to help. I fixed the problem myself (and demonstrated I couldn't do a prudent thinking). The mistake is trying to use shared key in an open-systems wireless network. I managed to get it right by having authomode open after managed to learn the difference of shared and open authmode and how to tell the mode of local network. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fail with wireless network configuration with SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 10/30/08, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I am trying to get an AboveCable (model: ACPC 2000-01) wireless card connected to my home network with 40-bit Hex WEP Encryption on FreeBSD 6.1. # ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.1.90 ssid ZWW wepmode on wepkey 0xea82552825 ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument Why is deftxkey 1 missing ? from ifconfig(8) Note that you must set a default transmit key with deftxkey for ^ the system to know which key to use in encrypting outbound traf- fic That quoted line of text is not appearing in my version (6.4) FreeBSD's manual. I tried to add deftxkey 1, same result. a.k.a. the interface is configured, but DHCP couldn't obtain IP address, manually assigned IP address couldn't communicate with other hosts. What do you have in /etc/rc.conf and in /boot/loader.conf? atb Glyn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fail with wireless network configuration with SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
On 10/31/08, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 10/30/08, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I am trying to get an AboveCable (model: ACPC 2000-01) wireless card connected to my home network with 40-bit Hex WEP Encryption on FreeBSD 6.1. # ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.1.90 ssid ZWW wepmode on wepkey 0xea82552825 ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument Why is deftxkey 1 missing ? from ifconfig(8) Note that you must set a default transmit key with deftxkey for ^ the system to know which key to use in encrypting outbound traf- fic That quoted line of text is not appearing in my version (6.4) FreeBSD's manual. I tried to add deftxkey 1, same result. a.k.a. the interface is configured, but DHCP couldn't obtain IP address, manually assigned IP address couldn't communicate with other hosts. send output of: # ifconfig -v wi0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fail with wireless network configuration with SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I am trying to get an AboveCable (model: ACPC 2000-01) wireless card connected to my home network with 40-bit Hex WEP Encryption on FreeBSD 6.1. # ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.1.90 ssid ZWW wepmode on wepkey 0xea82552825 ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument Did I made anything wrong or miss something in the kernel? I have the related lines in kernel: driver wi driver wlan It turns out this error message is a direct result of lack of wlan_wep neither loaded as module nor compiled in kernel. However I still could not make the card work (even though it works in Ubuntu Linux) after having wlan_wep compiled in, but at least I eliminated the SIOCS80211: Invalid argument error message, which may be helpful for someone who finds this thread by using this error message as search key to google. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fail with wireless network configuration with SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
On 10/30/08, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I am trying to get an AboveCable (model: ACPC 2000-01) wireless card connected to my home network with 40-bit Hex WEP Encryption on FreeBSD 6.1. # ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.1.90 ssid ZWW wepmode on wepkey 0xea82552825 ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument Why is deftxkey 1 missing ? from ifconfig(8) Note that you must set a default transmit key with deftxkey for ^ the system to know which key to use in encrypting outbound traf- fic Did I made anything wrong or miss something in the kernel? I have the related lines in kernel: driver wi driver wlan It turns out this error message is a direct result of lack of wlan_wep neither loaded as module nor compiled in kernel. However I still could not make the card work (even though it works in Ubuntu Linux) after having wlan_wep compiled in, but at least I eliminated the SIOCS80211: Invalid argument error message, which may be helpful for someone who finds this thread by using this error message as search key to google. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fail with wireless network configuration with SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 10/30/08, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I am trying to get an AboveCable (model: ACPC 2000-01) wireless card connected to my home network with 40-bit Hex WEP Encryption on FreeBSD 6.1. # ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.1.90 ssid ZWW wepmode on wepkey 0xea82552825 ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument Why is deftxkey 1 missing ? from ifconfig(8) Note that you must set a default transmit key with deftxkey for ^ the system to know which key to use in encrypting outbound traf- fic That quoted line of text is not appearing in my version (6.4) FreeBSD's manual. I tried to add deftxkey 1, same result. a.k.a. the interface is configured, but DHCP couldn't obtain IP address, manually assigned IP address couldn't communicate with other hosts. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fail with wireless network configuration with SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
Hello. I am trying to get an AboveCable (model: ACPC 2000-01) wireless card connected to my home network with 40-bit Hex WEP Encryption on FreeBSD 6.1. # ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.1.90 ssid ZWW wepmode on wepkey 0xea82552825 ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument Did I made anything wrong or miss something in the kernel? I have the related lines in kernel: driver wi driver wlan AboveCable wireless card uses PRIMSA II which is supported by driver wi. The same card is tested working fine on the same network on Ubuntu Linux (without needing of firmware or NDIS Wrapper) dmesg is attached. # ifconfig -a plip0: flags=108810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 wi0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::260:b3ff:fe73:3f4f%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 ether 00:60:b3:73:3f:4f media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps) status: no carrier ssid ZWW channel 1 stationname FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 txpowmax 100 bintval 100 Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jul 5 12:26:43 CST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QUASIMODO Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium/P55C (quarter-micron) (232.11-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x581 Stepping = 1 Features=0x8001bfFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX real memory = 100466688 (95 MB) avail memory = 88723456 (84 MB) Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug kbd1 at kbdmux0 cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: Host to PCI bridge pcibus 0 on motherboard pir0: PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 4 Entries on motherboard pci0: PCI bus on pcib0 cbb0: TI1250 PCI-CardBus Bridge mem 0x20822000-0x20822fff at device 2.0 on pci0 pccard0: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb0 cbb1: TI1250 PCI-CardBus Bridge mem 0x20821000-0x20821fff at device 2.1 on pci0 pccard1: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb1 pci0: display, VGA at device 3.0 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 6.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfcf0-0xfcff at device 6.1 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 uhci0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller port 0x9000-0x901f irq 11 at device 6.2 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: bridge at device 6.3 (no driver attached) pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: ISA Option ROM at iomem 0xc-0xc9fff on isa0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: Parallel port at port 0x3bc-0x3c3 irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0 plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled sio2: configured irq 5 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio2: port may not be enabled sio3: configured irq 9 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio3: port may not be enabled vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 unknown: PNP0303 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0f13 can't assign resources (irq) unknown: PNP0700 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0c02 can't assign resources (memory) unknown: PNP0400 can't assign resources (port) pcm0: CS423x at port 0x530-0x537,0x388-0x38b,0x220-0x233 irq 5 drq 1,0 on isa0 pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] unknown: IBM0071 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0e03 can't assign resources (port) Timecounter TSC frequency 232106515 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec wi0: AboveCable ACPC2000-11 at port 0x100-0x13f irq 10 function 0 config 1 on pccard1 wi0: using RF:PRISM2 MAC:HFA3841 CARD:HWB3163 rev.A wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (0.3.0), Station (0.8.3) wi0: Ethernet address: 00:60:b3:73:3f:4f ad0: 3102MB IBM DTCA-23240 TC5OAB1A at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: CDROM SANYO CRD-S372B/1.24F at ata0-slave PIO3 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev
Re: Wireless Card - EDIMAX EW-7728In
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 22:00 -0400, Justin Mazzi wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if FreeBSD has support for this card? I did some searching around and looks like this card is based on the RALink RT2860 chip. OpenBSD has drivers listed for it on this page: http://www.openbsd.org.ua/i386.html Section: Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11a/b/g PCI adapters (ral), including: (B) (C) If anyone has been able to get this card working, or knows how I could get it working, please let me know. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! I can't find it here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html#WLAN Therefor I don't think it will work. -- Regards, Aniruddha ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wireless Card - EDIMAX EW-7728In
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Does anyone know if FreeBSD has support for this card? I did some searching around and looks like this card is based on the RALink RT2860 chip. OpenBSD has drivers listed for it on this page: http://www.openbsd.org.ua/i386.html Section: Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11a/b/g PCI adapters (ral), including: (B) (C) If anyone has been able to get this card working, or knows how I could get it working, please let me know. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! _ Justin Mazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://r00tshell.com/static/me.asc.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Desktop 9.9.0 (Build 397) Charset: US-ASCII wsBVAwUBSO1lvRJHZj8KpgwRAQgZuAgAjLyrZ5D+Rx3PnjOr87I2AjIMIPJo0jy+ AhMLk/YNSPmwyikLqggrc7ScdxW7PQKr6rpIK0K2C6EfFyrqedxXzTB0DEw7/5tH 0qNwtA8eMGHUHlCeMvKKPfcq/SYGh7dvHWlBnQG4mpRQLB3kCbvD7PqpgXDstDCn RivRZ+HR2oug302Zy7mwijJr/nPYTgQHeDKuUXJsgzU2JfqOCfRzucnQacRlso5+ nGa5PSlfSBxZ0hVzNNNcoFxueycmMRQOltWtm7cHff/mwleWpUa/JYJueVd99O7a P/xC5g4htete5m8vtsExax/Wn0nyQu4+tJd1kHnKPi7hpyr8l4RlPg== =jEQb -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
intel pro/wireless 2200 card?
hi everybody; i am a freshman on freebsd ; i want to ask a question about intel pro wireless 2200 BG; i couldnt make the card on my system whatever i did my outputs are like this...i read lots of documents but i couldnt find anyhting and unfortunately my system is not updated because i cant use the internet connection on wireless...can you please tell me what i have to do step by stepthanks or your helps dmesg output; Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz (1866.74-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6d8 Stepping = 8 Features=0xafe9fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,PBE Features2=0x180EST,TM2 real memory = 536674304 (511 MB) avail memory = 511258624 (487 MB) ACPI APIC Table: A M I OEMAPIC ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 24 2008 19:59:27) acpi0: A M I OEMRSDT on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, 1ff0 (3) failed Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 acpi_ec0: Embedded Controller: GPE 0x18 port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 est0: Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control on cpu0 p4tcc0: CPU Frequency Thermal Control on cpu0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 16 at device 1.0 on pci0 pci3: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xd000-0xd7ff,0xffdf-0xffdf irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3 pci0: multimedia at device 27.0 (no driver attached) pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 16 at device 28.0 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 uhci0: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-A port 0xe480-0xe49f irq 23 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci0: [ITHREAD] usb0: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-A on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb0 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-B port 0xe800-0xe81f irq 19 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci1: [ITHREAD] usb1: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-B on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-C port 0xe880-0xe89f irq 18 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci2: [ITHREAD] usb2: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-C on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb2 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci3: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-D port 0xec00-0xec1f irq 16 at device 29.3 on pci0 uhci3: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci3: [ITHREAD] usb3: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-D on uhci3 usb3: USB revision 1.0 uhub3: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb3 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0: Intel 82801FB (ICH6) USB 2.0 controller mem 0xffeffc00-0xffef irq 23 at device 29.7 on pci0 ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ehci0: [ITHREAD] usb4: EHCI version 1.0 usb4: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2 usb3 usb4: Intel 82801FB (ICH6) USB 2.0 controller on ehci0 usb4: USB revision 2.0 uhub4: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb4 uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3 pci1: network at device 3.0 (no driver attached) fwohci0: Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A mem 0xffcff000-0xffcff7ff,0xffcf8000-0xffcfbfff irq 18 at device 10.0 on pci1 fwohci0: [FILTER] fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=1) fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4. fwohci0: EUI64 00:03:0d:49:50:e3:a8:0a fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports. fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. firewire0: IEEE1394(FireWire) bus on fwohci0 dcons_crom0: dcons configuration ROM on firewire0 dcons_crom0: bus_addr 0x128 fwe0: Ethernet over FireWire on firewire0 if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:03:0d:e3:a8:0a fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:03:0d:e3:a8:0a fwip0: IP over FireWire on firewire0 fwip0: Firewire address: 00:03:0d:49:50:e3:a8
Using long preambles on an Atheros WG311T wireless card
Dear all I'm running hostapd on a FreeBSD 6.1 server and an Atheros WG311T wireless card. ath0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 2290 inet6 fe80::214:6cff:fe72:a9fa%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 10.1.0.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.1.0.255 ether 00:14:6c:72:a9:fa media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11b hostap status: associated ssid freebsdap channel 11 bssid 00:14:6c:72:a9:fa authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED deftxkey 2 AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpowmax 37 protmode CTS burst dtimperiod 1 bintval 100 I am desperately trying to switch the wireless card to use long preambles instead of Short ones (to be able to avoid the many frames lost between the WG311T card and an iPod Touch): SSIDBSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS freebsdap 00:14:6c:72:a9:fa 11 11M29:0100 EPS RSN Didn't find any way so far ! Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks. C. Ramon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Switching wireless networks: WPA - unencrypted
I usually use two WPA encrypted wireless networks and I have wpa_supplicant.conf set up for that. In rc.conf I have ifconfig_ath0=WPA DHCP. It's working fine, but once in a while I have to use other, unencrypted networks and that presents a problem. How do I connect to these with the least amount of trouble? Right now it involves commenting out the line in rc.conf, restarting netif, manually configuring ifconfig and running dhclient. Surely there must be a better way to do this...? Preferably it should automatically fall back to using unencrypted networks, if no configured encrypted networks are available... or something like that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Switching wireless networks: WPA - unencrypted
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Lars Stokholm wrote:
| I usually use two WPA encrypted wireless networks and I have
| wpa_supplicant.conf set up for that. In rc.conf I have
| ifconfig_ath0=WPA DHCP. It's working fine, but once in a while I
| have to use other, unencrypted networks and that presents a problem.
| How do I connect to these with the least amount of trouble?
|
| Right now it involves commenting out the line in rc.conf, restarting
| netif, manually configuring ifconfig and running dhclient.
|
| Surely there must be a better way to do this...? Preferably it should
| automatically fall back to using unencrypted networks, if no
| configured encrypted networks are available... or something like that.
wpa_supplicant.conf supports WEP and open networks as well:
# WEP network
network={
~ ssid=network_id
~ key_mgmt=NONE
~ wep_tx_keyidx=0
~ wep_key0=WEPKEYHERE
}
# Open network
network={
~ ssid=network_id
~ key_mgmt=NONE
}
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Re: Switching wireless networks: WPA - unencrypted
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wpa_supplicant.conf supports WEP and open networks as well: [...] Sweet. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wireless and Broadcast packets problem
Hi Guys I am having a problem with my wireless network. The Issue is that clients connected to the wireless LAN cannot _see_ other clients. My understanding of 802.11 was that clients could talk to other clients, except all traffic would go via the access point and that the AP would forward on the packets. This also ensures that encryption works as expected as well as other RF issues. One thing that I can see is going wrong is that clients on the Wireless Lan sending Broadcast packets, but they are not being forwarded by the AP to anyone else... Wireless clients also cannot ping each other (mainly because their ARP requests are not being answered) Below is a simplified system diagram. AdriansPC AlbertAP \|/ - 192.168.123/24 | ||--LAN--bge0-||---| ral0 (192.168.124/24) ||||--tun0---PPPoE(bge0) WindowsFreeBSD Sneaky\|/ -| ||---| 192.168.124.2 (Static IP address) || ral0 FreeBSD Laptop\|/ -| ||---| 192.168.124.150 (DHCP) || Windows When running TCPDump on AlbertAP I can see plenty of wireless traffic going around the place. Wireless Clients are able to connect and have their session is encrypted with WPA. This all seems to work, wireless clients are able to browse the net. (Those that can get an IP address anyway, which happens to be the windows machines) *Problem* I have run tcpdump on both AlbertAP and Sneaky and seem some interesting omissions. When I ping Sneaky from Laptop I see on Albert the ARP request come out from Laptop asking for Sneaky's MAC address. AlbertAP tcpdump -i ral0 10:27:51.979664 arp who-has 192.168.124.2 tell 192.168.124.150 10:27:51.979684 arp who-has 192.168.124.2 tell 192.168.124.150 But on Sneaky I cannot see these packets comming in... All I get is random EAP traffic Sneaky tcpdump -i ral0 10:30:32.987961 EAP code=2 id=3 length=123 10:30:32.988383 EAP code=1 id=3 length=95 10:30:32.990557 EAP code=2 id=3 length=135 10:30:32.991548 EAP code=1 id=3 length=95 However if a Wired client like AdriansPC tries to ping Laptop then things work. Albert knows the MAC address of the Wireless client to send the ping packet to and so just sends it off. *Problem* The other thing I see alot of is netbios broadcast traffic coming from the Laptop on the wireless. Albert can see all this traffic coming in, but none of it gets forwarded to Sneaky, (nothing about netbios from a tcpdump on sneaky). The same can be said for a particular client doing DHCP/BOOTP. On AlbertAP, I see the request come in and see the response go out (the response goes to 255.255.255.255) but I do not see this on sneaky (I should right, its a broadcast address). Oh and I don't think this client is actually getting a response as I can't do much with it(ie ping). (Its a wireless print server) Interestingly enough DHCP does seem to work to Laptop. I believe that this is because windows is doing DHCP, where as my print server is doing BOOTP. *It does work* Just so you believe me that normal traffic does get around, here is a ping from sneaky to albert. Sneaky tcpdump -i ral0 10:36:11.243678 arp who-has 192.168.124.1 tell 192.168.124.2 10:36:11.244634 arp reply 192.168.124.1 is-at 00:1a:ee:00:d5:c0 (oui Unknown) 10:36:11.244693 IP 192.168.124.2 192.168.124.1: ICMP echo request, id 18949, seq 0, length 64 10:36:11.251920 IP 192.168.124.1 192.168.124.2: ICMP echo reply, id 18949, seq 0, length 64 AlbertAP tcpdump -i ral0 10:36:11.241001 arp who-has 192.168.124.1 tell 192.168.124.2 10:36:11.241017 arp who-has 192.168.124.1 tell 192.168.124.2 10:36:11.241042 arp reply 192.168.124.1 is-at 00:1a:ee:00:d5:c0 (oui Unknown) 10:36:11.248582 IP 192.168.124.2 192.168.124.1: ICMP echo request, id 18949, seq 0, length 64 10:36:11.248600 IP 192.168.124.1 192.168.124.2: ICMP echo reply, id 18949, seq 0, length 64 *Discussion Point* I find it interesting that sneaky asks for 192.168.124.1's MAC address with an ARP request, but albert got two of them... *System Details* Things are basically setup as detailed in the Handbook, with the wireless LAN on a different Subnet to the wired one. I have also had a go at bridging the two interfaces but ran into trouble so didn't spend long there. I expect I would have the same issues. AlbertAP uname -a FreeBSD albertAP 7.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p3 #2: Mon Jul 14 09:00:17 EST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AdriansKernel i386 AlbertAP ifconfig bge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM ether 00:11:85:b3:a2:7e inet 192.168.123.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.123.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active ral0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00
Re: desktop wireless card
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Tim Kellers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had Lynksys cards that were not recognized, but in those cases I was able to use ndisgen (after I dug up the Windows drivers) to create a wrapper and enable those cards in both FreeBSD 6.3 and 7 -CURRENT (way back when 7 was current). I haven't had to do it since 7.0-RELEASE but I'd expect it to work as well. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT Boris Kochergin wrote: James Harrison wrote: gahn wrote: Hello: Could anyone recommend a desktop wireless card for freebsd 6.2? Just moved in new place and only wireless in the house. Thanks in advance I use whatever was the cheapest linksys wireless G card I could find; plugs in to PCI slot and works wonderfully. ___ I'm not certain that everything Linksys puts out has FreeBSD-supported hardware inside. I have a bunch of TRENDnet TEW-443PI and Netgear WG311T cards that work well. They use the ath(4) driver. As a general statement, I'm pretty sure that anything with an Atheros chip inside (a fact often advertised on boxes of the products) that doesn't support any incarnation of 802.11n will work with said driver. http://atheros.rapla.net/ has more details. -Boris [EMAIL PROTECTED] I recommend looking at the hardware notes for your specific release. You can find 6.2's wireless notes at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN The man pages for the device drivers contain lists of compatible models. Beware: Some manufacturers will change the version number but not the model number when they change chipsets; so pay close attention to both the model and version numbers that are provided. Many of the models are old, but that means you can get many of them cheaply on eBay. Another option is getting a wireless adapter that plugs into your ethernet port, so operating system compatibility should not be an issue. One such product can be found here: http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0pid=333 Good luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: desktop wireless card
gahn wrote: Hello: Could anyone recommend a desktop wireless card for freebsd 6.2? Just moved in new place and only wireless in the house. Thanks in advance I use whatever was the cheapest linksys wireless G card I could find; plugs in to PCI slot and works wonderfully. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: desktop wireless card
James Harrison wrote: gahn wrote: Hello: Could anyone recommend a desktop wireless card for freebsd 6.2? Just moved in new place and only wireless in the house. Thanks in advance I use whatever was the cheapest linksys wireless G card I could find; plugs in to PCI slot and works wonderfully. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not certain that everything Linksys puts out has FreeBSD-supported hardware inside. I have a bunch of TRENDnet TEW-443PI and Netgear WG311T cards that work well. They use the ath(4) driver. As a general statement, I'm pretty sure that anything with an Atheros chip inside (a fact often advertised on boxes of the products) that doesn't support any incarnation of 802.11n will work with said driver. http://atheros.rapla.net/ has more details. -Boris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: desktop wireless card
I have had Lynksys cards that were not recognized, but in those cases I was able to use ndisgen (after I dug up the Windows drivers) to create a wrapper and enable those cards in both FreeBSD 6.3 and 7 -CURRENT (way back when 7 was current). I haven't had to do it since 7.0-RELEASE but I'd expect it to work as well. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT Boris Kochergin wrote: James Harrison wrote: gahn wrote: Hello: Could anyone recommend a desktop wireless card for freebsd 6.2? Just moved in new place and only wireless in the house. Thanks in advance I use whatever was the cheapest linksys wireless G card I could find; plugs in to PCI slot and works wonderfully. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not certain that everything Linksys puts out has FreeBSD-supported hardware inside. I have a bunch of TRENDnet TEW-443PI and Netgear WG311T cards that work well. They use the ath(4) driver. As a general statement, I'm pretty sure that anything with an Atheros chip inside (a fact often advertised on boxes of the products) that doesn't support any incarnation of 802.11n will work with said driver. http://atheros.rapla.net/ has more details. -Boris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless net Card
Which Belkin wireless card do you have? Which arch are you running (i386/amd64)? I had horrific trouble with a Belkin on the Realtek chipset, played up with Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Fedora, even Windows! Trouble with Belkin is, you never know what you're getting. You need the revision number of the card, and then find out which chipset it is. Make sure the drivers you downloaded are for that exact revision. Hope you have more luck than I did, I tossed mine and bought a Ralink. Chris AMD64 Arch ironically it worked beautifully for ages in windows, but i got sick of windows having been used to FreeBSD, so i re-installed FreeBSD an using the onboard LAN card atm, but am wanting to goto wireless. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3:5:0: class=0x02 card=0x700f1799 chip=0x700f1799 rev=0x20 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Belkin Research and Development Labs' class = network subclass = ethernet Chipset is RT8185L an i used the ndisgen to create the .ko file, which is just over 572kb in size. ironically the 8180 works fine, but naturally wont do my wireless card. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless net Card
Please provide more detailed informatio. Card model, at least, or the output of pciconf -lv supposing that you have a real card, either internal or PCMCIA. If it is a USB model, then use usbdevs -v [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3:5:0: class=0x02 card=0x700f1799 chip=0x700f1799 rev=0x20 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Belkin Research and Development Labs' class = network subclass = ethernet Chipset is RT8185L an i used the ndisgen to create the .ko file, which is just over 572kb in size. ironically the 8180 works fine, but naturally wont do my wireless card. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE
if_watchdog interface ath0: mac 14.2 phy 7.0 radio 10.2 and an ifconfig ath0 shows: ath0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:1d:d9:27:5c:e5 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier My problem is now the no carrier, I think that I'm very close but still no cigar. Thanks soo much for your help. Gonna bang away and the manuals and google to find out why, no carrier. I have an AP a few feet away and iPhone works great. Did you get this to ever work? I am now running into the same issue. What had happened was I sent my notebook back to fix a plastic latch and at the sametime work changed the wireless AP settings. Now when the chipset comes up I constantly get no carrier and ifconfig ath0 scan list just hangs (sits there). Any idea what maybe the issue? This is highly frustrating because it WAS working (I'm using a new 7.0-STABLE, from yesterday freshly built against Sam's latest HAL). It is working great for me on both amd64 and i386 Current 8 with ath_hal-20080528. I haven't had time to be too adventurous and am using a fixed configuration in rc.conf which follows: wlans_ath0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=DHCP ssid virus wepmode on wepkey 1:0x2373FE9515 weptxkey 1 It hasn't even hiccuped since I set it up. Actually I have multiple configurations for different AP's but haven't set it up to be automatic. I hope this helps some, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes thanks. False alarm. Friggin support folks didn't install the antenna right. As a result I was getting well no carrier all the time. Its fixed and working! Well I spoke too soon. In Windows it works but within 7.0-STABLE, scanning just sort of hangs and I never got an output of SSIDs. Perhaps I should now try CURRENT. This stinks cause 7.0-STABLE was working at some point but now its broke. -aps ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: An alternative to the inserted text in all http traffic (and probably easier to implement) is just to divert all unknown traffic to an internal ip-adress (using the firewall), and setup a web page on that address. Then have people click some button, which will rewrite the fw rules for that specific machine (white list). I set something similar on my roommate's wireless network, and routinely use it on another server to inform banned users that they are. It's easy to set up for either a whitelist or a blacklist. It utilizes FreeBSD's IPFW, but is trivial to implement in PF as well. http://wiki.cyberleo.net/index.php/FirewallRedirect -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Furry Peace! - http://.fur.com/peace/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
Marcel Grandemange [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Sounds To Me Also too much work for little gain... Easist would be to use a product called Mikrotik you will have that entire system up running in 15mins tops. http://www.mikrotik.com/download.html + Runs on underspec machines perfectly as it's designed for embedded systems. I always found myself using it instead of doing all the work myself because of time constraints. It's linux based, but everything is done through a client. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giorgos Keramidas Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 3:34 PM To: Svein Halvor Halvorsen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup) On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:54:04 +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, fellow FreeBSD-ers! I'd like to a good neighbor and share my DSL line and set up an unencrypted free wireless access point. I often find myself wanting more free access points around the city, so I thought I'd stand up as a good example for others :-) I want people to know that they can use the network (easy, use ssid free internet), but I want them to know that they should be nice, and it's meant for casual browsing, and that misuse will cause a ban. So, what I'd like: 1) Setup a wireless network card in infrastructure mode, I think. 2) Setup a DHCP server and DNS forwarder on this interface 3) Setup routing from one interface to my other network 4) Use a firewall to close down lots of stuff, maybe also limit bandwith per mac-address, and a way to deny access to certain NICs. 5) Insert a message in all text/html over HTTP, basically saying: Hi, guest! Feel free to use our free internet, but be nice! And a close-button, which I guess needs to send a POST to a http server as well, and that I need to record this action in a database, and use the same database to dynamically insert the message above or not. This sounds like too much work for a doubtful amount of gain. It is probably a lot easier to use ipfw or pf+altq to rate limit the bandwidth others can use :) Hmmm, is there a way to limit bandwidth on incoming connections with pf+altq? Squid, afaik, can only limit incoming web traffic. My major concern would be p2p file sharing. How would you limit that? ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
Hello, fellow FreeBSD-ers! I'd like to a good neighbor and share my DSL line and set up an unencrypted free wireless access point. I often find myself wanting more free access points around the city, so I thought I'd stand up as a good example for others :-) I want people to know that they can use the network (easy, use ssid free internet), but I want them to know that they should be nice, and it's meant for casual browsing, and that misuse will cause a ban. So, what I'd like: 1) Setup a wireless network card in infrastructure mode, I think. 2) Setup a DHCP server and DNS forwarder on this interface 3) Setup routing from one interface to my other network 4) Use a firewall to close down lots of stuff, maybe also limit bandwith per mac-address, and a way to deny access to certain NICs. 5) Insert a message in all text/html over HTTP, basically saying: Hi, guest! Feel free to use our free internet, but be nice! And a close-button, which I guess needs to send a POST to a http server as well, and that I need to record this action in a database, and use the same database to dynamically insert the message above or not. So, if you have any pointers to any of the above, please feel free to give me directions. Keywords, product names, and other google bait is good. I know how to read, but I don't really know where to start. I'm guessing that pt. (5) will be hardest. Svein Halvor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:54:04 +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, fellow FreeBSD-ers! I'd like to a good neighbor and share my DSL line and set up an unencrypted free wireless access point. I often find myself wanting more free access points around the city, so I thought I'd stand up as a good example for others :-) I want people to know that they can use the network (easy, use ssid free internet), but I want them to know that they should be nice, and it's meant for casual browsing, and that misuse will cause a ban. So, what I'd like: 1) Setup a wireless network card in infrastructure mode, I think. 2) Setup a DHCP server and DNS forwarder on this interface 3) Setup routing from one interface to my other network 4) Use a firewall to close down lots of stuff, maybe also limit bandwith per mac-address, and a way to deny access to certain NICs. 5) Insert a message in all text/html over HTTP, basically saying: Hi, guest! Feel free to use our free internet, but be nice! And a close-button, which I guess needs to send a POST to a http server as well, and that I need to record this action in a database, and use the same database to dynamically insert the message above or not. This sounds like too much work for a doubtful amount of gain. It is probably a lot easier to use ipfw or pf+altq to rate limit the bandwidth others can use :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
Sounds To Me Also too much work for little gain... Easist would be to use a product called Mikrotik you will have that entire system up running in 15mins tops. http://www.mikrotik.com/download.html + Runs on underspec machines perfectly as it's designed for embedded systems. I always found myself using it instead of doing all the work myself because of time constraints. It's linux based, but everything is done through a client. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giorgos Keramidas Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 3:34 PM To: Svein Halvor Halvorsen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup) On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:54:04 +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, fellow FreeBSD-ers! I'd like to a good neighbor and share my DSL line and set up an unencrypted free wireless access point. I often find myself wanting more free access points around the city, so I thought I'd stand up as a good example for others :-) I want people to know that they can use the network (easy, use ssid free internet), but I want them to know that they should be nice, and it's meant for casual browsing, and that misuse will cause a ban. So, what I'd like: 1) Setup a wireless network card in infrastructure mode, I think. 2) Setup a DHCP server and DNS forwarder on this interface 3) Setup routing from one interface to my other network 4) Use a firewall to close down lots of stuff, maybe also limit bandwith per mac-address, and a way to deny access to certain NICs. 5) Insert a message in all text/html over HTTP, basically saying: Hi, guest! Feel free to use our free internet, but be nice! And a close-button, which I guess needs to send a POST to a http server as well, and that I need to record this action in a database, and use the same database to dynamically insert the message above or not. This sounds like too much work for a doubtful amount of gain. It is probably a lot easier to use ipfw or pf+altq to rate limit the bandwidth others can use :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 3329 (20080805) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: This sounds like too much work for a doubtful amount of gain. It is probably a lot easier to use ipfw or pf+altq to rate limit the bandwidth others can use :) Marcel Grandemange wrote: Sounds To Me Also too much work for little gain... The learning experience in doing it, is a major part of the gain. Although, the end product itself is also of some value. Easist would be to use a product called Mikrotik you will have that entire system up running in 15mins tops. http://www.mikrotik.com/download.html I will look into it. Svein Halvor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
El día Saturday, August 09, 2008 a las 04:33:37PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas escribió: On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:54:04 +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, fellow FreeBSD-ers! I'd like to a good neighbor and share my DSL line and set up an unencrypted free wireless access point. I often find myself wanting more free access points around the city, so I thought I'd stand up as a good example for others :-) I want people to know that they can use the network (easy, use ssid free internet), but I want them to know that they should be nice, and it's meant for casual browsing, and that misuse will cause a ban. So, what I'd like: 1) Setup a wireless network card in infrastructure mode, I think. 2) Setup a DHCP server and DNS forwarder on this interface 3) Setup routing from one interface to my other network 4) Use a firewall to close down lots of stuff, maybe also limit bandwith per mac-address, and a way to deny access to certain NICs. 5) Insert a message in all text/html over HTTP, basically saying: Hi, guest! Feel free to use our free internet, but be nice! And a close-button, which I guess needs to send a POST to a http server as well, and that I need to record this action in a database, and use the same database to dynamically insert the message above or not. This sounds like too much work for a doubtful amount of gain. It is probably a lot easier to use ipfw or pf+altq to rate limit the bandwidth others can use :) To the OP: Be aware that depending on the local laws you might (will) be responsible if the NATed IP is used in criminal affairs (downloads, child porno, etc.); at least the local authorities will ask you who used that IP and take your complete system with them for further investigations, scanning your logs and disks; even if it is a nice idea and you have good neighbors, I would not do that here in Germany; matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ We should all learn from the peoples of The Netherlands, France and Ireland. Aprendamos todos de los pueblos de Holanda, Francia e Irlanda. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
Matthias Apitz wrote: To the OP: Be aware that depending on the local laws you might (will) be responsible if the NATed IP is used in criminal affairs (downloads, child porno, etc.); at least the local authorities will ask you who used that IP and take your complete system with them for further investigations, scanning your logs and disks; even if it is a nice idea and you have good neighbors, I would not do that here in Germany; Yes, I'm well aware of the laws in this regard. It wont be illegal to relay any traffic, for whatever reason. It's far more likely that I will violate the contract I have with my ISP, than Norwegian criminal law. But it will of course be unpleasant for me, if someone used my network for illegal activities, for the reasons you mention. Still, I'd like to set up something like this, if for nothing else, the challenge of doing it. I might even make people aware that the traffic is being monitored, and that will probably make people behave. An alternative to the inserted text in all http traffic (and probably easier to implement) is just to divert all unknown traffic to an internal ip-adress (using the firewall), and setup a web page on that address. Then have people click some button, which will rewrite the fw rules for that specific machine (white list). Svein Halvor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Marcel Grandemange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds To Me Also too much work for little gain... Easist would be to use a product called Mikrotik you will have that entire system up running in 15mins tops. http://www.mikrotik.com/download.html + Runs on underspec machines perfectly as it's designed for embedded systems. I always found myself using it instead of doing all the work myself because of time constraints. It's linux based, but everything is done through a client. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giorgos Keramidas Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 3:34 PM To: Svein Halvor Halvorsen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup) On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:54:04 +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, fellow FreeBSD-ers! I'd like to a good neighbor and share my DSL line and set up an unencrypted free wireless access point. I often find myself wanting more free access points around the city, so I thought I'd stand up as a good example for others :-) I want people to know that they can use the network (easy, use ssid free internet), but I want them to know that they should be nice, and it's meant for casual browsing, and that misuse will cause a ban. So, what I'd like: 1) Setup a wireless network card in infrastructure mode, I think. 2) Setup a DHCP server and DNS forwarder on this interface 3) Setup routing from one interface to my other network 4) Use a firewall to close down lots of stuff, maybe also limit bandwith per mac-address, and a way to deny access to certain NICs. 5) Insert a message in all text/html over HTTP, basically saying: Hi, guest! Feel free to use our free internet, but be nice! And a close-button, which I guess needs to send a POST to a http server as well, and that I need to record this action in a database, and use the same database to dynamically insert the message above or not. This sounds like too much work for a doubtful amount of gain. It is probably a lot easier to use ipfw or pf+altq to rate limit the bandwidth others can use :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 3329 (20080805) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It would be a great learning experience, though! Squid (http://www.squid-cache.org) will do the bandwidth-limiting and authentication. It will also make browsing faster. The message you described sending to others sounds like a captive portal. Squid does that, too. (Mikrotik is awesome, too.) -- Regards, Brie A. Gordon A BSD Diva http://granite.sru.edu/~bag6849/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
